(satire) *Prison Guard Heats Lunch Up Inside 150-Degree Solitary Confinement Cell.*

This is outrageous! That lunch did nothing to deserve solitary confinement.

(satire) *Florida Students Given Lifelike Dolls To Simulate Responsibility Of Owning Slave.*

Iranian filmmaker Saeed Roustayi has been sentenced to 5 years isolation from other cinema professionals, and to take a brainwashing course in how to make films that embody the regime's propaganda.

It occurs to me that copyright law is what enables the Iranian regime to use threats to block the showing of Iranian's' films in other countries. Copyright gives the filmmakers the power to deny permission for such showings, and thus makes it effective for the regime to jail them if they don't deny permission.

I can imagine other countries could pass laws to permit showings of foreign films without authorization of the copyright holder or any other entity that "owns" some aspect, if a court finds that a repressive regime compels that entity to deny permission.

The UK says it will require banks to offer access to cash within a 3-mile distance of a depositor's local community.

This is a good policy in principle, but I fear British banks, with their propensity to close accounts to avoid inconveniences for themselves, will game the rules by implementing them in reverse, like this:

"Dear Sir or Madam, we are compelled to close your account on account of the fact that we have no ATM within 3 miles of the village where you reside. We regret the inconvenience this may cause."

Ethiopia's rapid population growth is leaving no room for wildlife.

The next stage will cause famine.