The thugs knew Shannon Renee McNeal was the wrong person, and so did the court, but they insisted on jailing her anyway.

Anyone can make a mistake, but there should be zero tolerance for insisting on mistreating someone based on a mistake that has been recognized. All the people who did so should be fired.

Canadian scientists are required to get 9 levels of approval before they can tell the public how much Arctic ice has melted.

Most Americans want it to be illegal to allow children to play outside alone.

This shows how far the American insanity about children has gone.

Another foolish overreaction: a foreign tourist who climbed a tower on the Brooklyn Bridge faces criminal charges. He is likely to be jailed for years before trial.

A UK man was sentenced to about 3 years in prison for redistributing copies of a movie.

Someone pointed out that this is as much as the usual penalty for convicted rapists.

This redistribution was done commercially. I don't advocate legalization of commercial redistribution of copyrighted works without authorization. Works made to be used in a practical way should all be free but this was a work of fiction, not a functional work. So I don't think what Danks did has to be legalized.

However, the companies that the UK government caters to would have told it to jail him just the same if he had not tried to make one penny.

Please don't refer to unauthorized copying with the smear term, "piracy". Movie piracy is what you see in Captain Blood.

Uri Avnery: The War for Nothing.

It is interesting that the rockets fired from Hamas, although they rarely injure a person, made life so unpleasant in the farms near the border of Gaza that people began to move away.

Israel has no right to order Gazans to stay away from the border on pain of being shot without warning. Israel does have the right to evacuate the land on its own side of the border. If Israel wants a buffer zone, that is the legitimate way to make one.