I am looking for people to write a recipe for how to connect to the WiFi in a New York City subway station without running its nonfree Javascript code. The recipe could include a free Javascript program I could run, or it could consist of instructions for what I would type into IceCat (our variant of Firefox). It doesn't have't be super convenient, it just has to work.

US citizens: phone your senators to oppose Resolution 6, which would condemn the recent UN resolution rebuking Israel for colonizing Palestinian territory.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.

US citizens: join rallies on Sunday Jan 15 against Republican cuts to medical care and Planned Parenthood.

Al Qa'ida is slowly growing by seeking support locally and being less bloody.

Perhaps it will morph into something we could make peace with.

Any Islamist group advocates oppressive Shari'a law, and thus aims to violate people's human rights. But it's not usually necessary or legitimate to respond to every such regime with war. The US has not started drone attacks in Poland and Hungary, let alone Belarus, Thailand, and Malaysia, nor even in Bahrain, Egypt, and Salafi Arabia, for their violations of human rights.

Oil companies are blocking research into the effect of spills of diluted bitumen into the sea, by keeping the composition of the diluent fluid secret.

I don't believe in prohibiting companies from keeping secrets, not in general. But companies are not persons and they are not entitled to human rights. Any time their secrecy interferes with some public need, the state should require publication. The companies that don't like this are welcome to shut down or go away -- good riddance to them.