The FISA court contrived a strained excuse to let the FBI study the bulk information that the NSA collects without half trying.

Some congresscritters are not happy with this.

Republicans that oppose abortion rights mostly shy away from the logical conclusion, which is to treat their female relatives as murderers. So their excuse is to treat women as lacking responsibility for their actions.

Aggressive marketing of cosmetic surgery covers up the risk, paving the way for social pressure to make many people believe it is their only hope.

The result is a sort of beauty inflation, comparable to grade inflation in a school. When most students get an A, getting a B is in effect describes you as a bad student. When most people who aren't naturally beautiful get cosmetic surgery, an appearance that 40 years ago would have been just fine may now be regarded as ugly.

Anorexia is part of a similar phenomenon.

The Egyptian "false news" published by Reuters is that Giulio Regeni was arrested and handed over to "homeland security" on the night he disappeared.

This doesn't prove that "homeland security" tortured and killed him, but it seems plausible from a regime so murderous.

Researchers are tackling the problem of extending the human lifespan.

I am very much in favor of this, but we will have even more need to reduce the birth rate.

Supposing we reduce the birth rate sufficiently, I expect life extension won't cause economic problems. This is because by the time these treatments work well and are quite common, developed countries will probably have an economic system that doesn't require people to work, and most people won't be able to find any work.

But we can't take that for granted. If the plutocrats win, they could force most people into Hunger Games poverty that few will want to extend.