Crackers have obtained personal information from a controversial dating site, Ashley Madison, and are threatening to release it unless the site shuts down.

My conclusion is that dating sites should not have users' personal information, except for what the users choose to publish.

An expert who has interviewed many terrorists says that the details of the ideology they choose to fight for are secondary in recruiting them, and that focusing on ideology is largely missing the point.

Wisconsin, under Republican control, has made abortion after 20 weeks a crime.

Abortions that late are only done because of special circumstances.

The law is based on fantasy science; the anti-abortion forces claim that a fetus can feel pain after 20 weeks. This is impossible because the fetus's brain is not connected then.

The directly contradicts Roe v Wade, so it ought to be unconstitutional, but it is hard to count on that with today's Supreme Court. Doctors will be scared.

95% of US women who have abortions are subsequently content with their decision.

I wonder what fraction of women that have babies later regret it.

California is fining some farmers for using water after a notice to cut back.

It is too bad that crops and trees will be lost, but there is no way California can avoid that. All that can be done is to try to keep things running at a level that is sustainable.

I don't think that the purpose of Ashley Madison (facilitating sexual affairs for married people) was bad in itself. However, the company did many sleazy things , going as far as to accept pay to delete people's profiles, then not really deleting them.

It also committed negligence that could leak data about its users , and the worst instance was keeping so information about them in the first place.

I feel no sympathy for the company, but I condemn the wrong that the crackers (please don't call them "hackers") have done to the users of the site in taking their data hostage.

I also disagree with the crackers supposed moral grounds for trying to shut the site down. I don't regard monogamy as ethically privileged. On the contrary, I disapprove of possessiveness and oppose the social pressure for people to agree to monogamy which doesn't fit them.

Therefore, I do not criticize having an affair, and I reject the label of "cheating" for it.