Ola Bini has been stuck in Ecuador for two years, awaiting trial on apparently bogus charges under a process including illegal actions by the state. How he will go on trial.

One must suspect that Ecuador is doing this to serve the US, just as it expelled Assange from the embassy to serve the US.

Smoking makes your descendants (for three generations at least) likely to be fatter. What is amazing is that the effect depends in a complex way on details.

*America must take steps now to avoid a slide into authoritarianism.*

(satire) *Oxygen Masks Drop From Nation's Ceilings After Earth Hits Rough Patch In Orbit.*