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Anyone who has labored on the far left will understand this immediately. Some wee little splinter group of a faction that broke from another group decades ago (and they still aren’t speaking to each other), decides the planet is waiting…

We’ve just stopped feeding our cats treats because they had become whiny and insistent for them. Sometimes, in clear signs of addictive behavior, they would slap or scratch us if treats were not forthcoming. As it turns out, cat treats…

The working poor in San Francisco are often hired as independent contractors via web apps for menial jobs, have no job security, and are forced to live long distances away because the cost of housing is so high. The Sharing…

Basic drones, available now, can simply enough be made to carry bombs, fly themselves autonomously on a predetermined path, scan for targets, land on the targets, then ignite. This is not a nightmarish, dystopian, future world fantasy. It can be…

I was once a member of a group in Los Angeles that organized dozens of protests on multiple issues, most notably on the Iraq War. Some of our antiwar protests drew hundreds of thousands. Our enemies said we were professional…