Everyone in the Chinese Communist Party will now have to study "Xi Jinping Thought".

Anyone in a "department of Xi Jinping Thought" that tries to be anything but a parrot will sooner or later fail to match the real Xi Jinping, and get punished. Of course, everyone will know this and will work hard to be a parrot, at least in public. Being in one of those departments will be mind-numbing.

I like parrots when they are friendly, but those will be too dangerous to be friends with.

Tunisia has adopted an amnesty for the corrupt politicians from the previous dictatorship. People respond, "We will not forgive."

The bully's saboteurs plan to expand oil drilling on public lands while killing renewable energy if they can.

The bully plans to put a coal industry saboteur in charge of protecting people from coal mine pollution.

This is direct murder.

We can laugh at the absurd extremes of the US culture of overprotecting children, but its everyday form is enough to direct most kids to grow into weaklings who can't cope with the ordinary problems of education, work, and life.

Denied the chance to play freely together, they lose the chance to learn how to cope.

Accustomed to being protected from shocking thoughts, they demand to be protected even when they grow older.

Breaking the Silence, which lead Israeli soldiers and ex-soldiers to reveal the war crimes they and their fellow soldiers have committed, faces being banned by proposed laws.

The right-wing in Israel encourages crimes against Palestinians, and pressures everyone to cover then up; they therefore define everyone who reveals them as a “traitor”.

We saw that perverse attitude in the US towards Chelsea Manning.