Advice for Americans dealing with debt collectors.

Protests Erupt in Nicaragua over Interoceanic Canal.

The canal raises two issues. One is that farmers who will lose their land don't trust that they will be compensated. There is an obvious solution: start buying their land at a fair price now.

The bigger and harder issue is that of potential ecosystem damage. I don't know if there is a way to prevent that.

A cinema in the UK called the thugs to arrest some 12-year-olds for bringing iThings with them to the movie.

The fact that they did not in fact record the movie is a side issue. What if they had done so? Since that is not a crime in the UK, the only complaint the cinema could make is that they violated its rules. That should not qualify as an "emergency" — the thugs should have refused to come.

This is in addition to the general point that laws against sharing copies of published works are an injustice.

Jeffrey Deskovic was falsely convicted of murder, and freed after 16 years. Now he dedicates his life to freeing others wrongly imprisoned by a system that makes slapdash mistakes.

Privatized UK parole officers put people back in prison for taking jobs that start too early in the morning.