An Israeli tank fired several shells at a group of journalists in Lebanon, killing one and injuring six more.

There was no fighting nearby and the Israeli army could not have been unaware of the journalists.

Activists in various political causes have noticed that e-books give distributors of books power to snoop on readers and power to censor books they disapprove of.

Their campaign does not recognize that these dangers come out of the DMCA, making them reasons to demand repeal of the DMCA, and that the only effective and lasting way to eliminate the dangers is to repeal the DMCA.

*We need power to prescribe climate policy, IPCC scientists say.*

This approach would be morally legitimate, but I tend to think that it would not work in practice -- governments will not grant scientists that sort of power until they are ready to carry out the measures that the know conscientious scientists would have to establish.

*A second [wrecker] term [as president] will be far more autocratic than the first. He’s telling us.*

Global heating effects are destroying artifacts that have been preserved in British bogs for hundreds or thousands of years. These include handwritten letters and documents from Roman times.