*The War on Logic: Contradictions and Absurdities in the House’s Military Spending Bill.*

The House refused even to limit the power of the president to aim the US military at peaceful protesters.

Movies are escaping from the decades-old pattern of presenting abortion as inexplicably unthinkable.

That strange tendency became known decades ago, and I wonder whether the antiabortionist right-wing played some part in establishing it. In any case, I'm glad to see it go. Movies that treat abortion as a normal part of life will help spread that idea, especially in countries which repress abortion in the name of religion.

To see abortions mentioned as asides in movies which are mainly about something else would do even more.

Australia has warned its citizens of the danger inherent in going to China.

All countries should do that. But it is ironic that Australia also has made a law that claims global jurisdiction and requires free software developers to stay away from Australia.

Bogus Johnson wants to be thought of as an FDR by launching a minuscule imitation of FDR's New Deal.

Scihub is loved by the scientists that write the articles it redistributes. Only those parasites, the journal publishers, hate it.

If we can simply eliminate the publishers of paywalled journals, there will be no more opposition to Scihub