Citizens of New Jersey: call your state legislators to support the law that stores must accept cash.

You can support cash (and your privacy) more by actually insisting on cash when you buy things in stores, and refusing to give your name. I do this, and so can you.

If you phone, please spread the word!

Australia has refused to resume sending ships to oppose Japan's "commercial" whaling, but holds out as consolation that it just perhaps might launch a legal challenge of some kind.

I would be glad if Australia really did that, but I think this is just a way of letting people down gently step by step.

The bullshitter is systematically removing regulations that protect birds. He has even allowed shooting birds with lead, which tends to poison carrion eaters and introduce lead into the whole ecosystem.

For some children that never reach the mental level of a toddler, identifying a genetic cause is interesting, but does not alter the futility of spending your life taking care of them.

The coup-running "president" of the Maldives seems to be trying to rig the coming election.

I suspect that "president" Yameen's coup was organized by fossil fuel interests.

In recent years he has put the country in China's pocket by accepting loans for unnecessary projects, such as a bridge that in a few decades will connect one patch of ocean to another patch of ocean.

We need an international system for countries that have emerged from dictatorship to repudiate the debts imposed by tyrants and corrupt rulers. That will teach plutocrats to stop trying to enslave countries through lending to those rulers.

When the islands are awash and no one lives there any more, China will foreclose on them and build a naval base there.