Bots and robots are already replacing jobs. This trend will accelerate, affecting tech workers and white-collar jobs as well as blue-collar. So, with less money and more time, people will learn to do on their own, buying local, growing their…

So, you’re watching TV while noodling with your smart phone, your daughter is playing with Hello Barbie, and your spouse is doing errands in your OnStar-equipped car. All of these activities are sending data about you back to their respective…

Hmm. I thought pensions were sacrosanct and couldn’t be garnished or taken. In what many be a first, federal prosecutors want to garnish the $10,419 a month pension for former judge Steven Jones, who is in prison for swindling investors…

Shall we end the false dichotomy in this country that mental illness and terrorist acts are somehow mutually contradictory? They aren’t. And while no group has claimed responsibility for the carnage, I’m just going to go ahead and say that…

The wheels are coming off in this country. Various warring tribes howl at each other. Precious few actually listen to anyone outside their own little upholstered reality tunnels. CNN is becoming inadvertently comical with ponderous Very Serious reports about how…

Doctors are prescribing highly addictive opiates to patients who, not surprisingly, get addicted then sometimes overdose and die. This happens so often in Minnesota that overdosing on prescription opiates is now a major public health problem, causing more deaths than…