Zack Anderson's life has been turned into hell because he had sex with a 14-year-old who said she was 17.

Now Indiana is grasping at straws for excuses to put him on the sex offender's list for 25 years.

Excuses such as that a minor started working at his church and was there when he was.

The normal occupation of human adolescents is sex.

This case demonstrates what everyone should already have known: a human of age 14 can consent to sex, even seek it out.

Claims to the contrary are false, and when these claims appear in a law, it's a lying law.

The term “statutory rape” is a reflection of this lie. It means, “We know that wasn't rape, but we will pretend it was.”

Adolescents can be bullied / tricked / bribed into sex.

So can adults, as the recent accusations against Weinstein and others demonstrate.

It could be useful to do something to help people of any age resist such pressures, on the occasions when they would rather not have sex.

However, denying the fact that people also do have sex voluntarily is not the solution.

High rents in London have led to a successful co-living building with 500 inhabitants.

Alas, it is so expensive that most people couldn't afford it.

US Senators Ask Apple Why VPN Apps Were Removed in China.

Their questioning misses Apple's wrong which created the problem: that Apple designed the iThings to impose Apple's own censorship.

More about Apple Censorship.

Formerly secret files show how the US aided the massacre of several hundred thousand suspected communists in Indonesia, and how organized Muslim groups helped the army kill them.

The very deadly raid on Mogadishu appears to have been revenge for a US raid that killed several civilians.

It is ironic that revenge for killing Somali civilians takes the form of killing an even larger number of Somali civilians. But the intended target was a government agency.