California has just passed a law that was originally intended to reduce the likelihood of police shootings of civilians. But it still allows policemen to assess whether or not to kill you based on their “feelings,” whatever that means.
The Boom-Bust Cycle of Capitalism
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With salaries representing the biggest expense for employers, it’s not paranoid to suggest that, as soon as workers begin to gain advantage in a tight labor market, bosses are ready to tank the economy to keep workers’ wages in check.
Before I Knew My Mom Had Alzheimer’s, Her Weirdness Drove Me Crazy
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My continuing series about my mothers struggle with Alzheimer’s turns the tables on me, the cartoonist, her son. Looking back now, I can see that many of the things that she did that drove me crazy were really early warning signs of the disease. Now that I know what’s going on, I am able to be patient. Why wasn’t I before?
Even Elizabeth Warren Supports the Bizarre Myth That Vietnam Still Has Our POWs
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You see them flying over the doors at hotels, in front of post office is and other government offices, as stickers on cars. The POW/MIA flag is everywhere. But what it represent is complete fiction: the idea that there are still prisoners of war languishing in Vietnam nearly 50 years after the end of hostilities. There’s no evidence whatsoever that that’s the case. But even a progressive like Elizabeth Warren supports this ridiculous myth.
Jeffrey Epstein Shows That Conspiracies Just Aren’t What They Used To Be
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Whether you believe them in or not, government conspiracy theories involving fiendishly diabolical plots by brilliant evildoers just aren’t what they used to be. Consider, for example, the convenient death of Jeffrey Epstein. It was almost like they weren’t even trying.
My Mother Was Absolutely Certain She Would Not Succumb to Alzheimer’s
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No one would have been more surprised to plunge into Alzheimer’s than my mother. She was vigorous, a big planner and absolutely determined not to succumb to senility, as had her own mother.
Don’t Worry, the Government Will only Use Their New Anti-Mass Shooting to Suppress Us
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Right wing politicians are using the latest mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso as an excuse to say that they need the same sweeping rights to invade privacy that they currently use to combat foreign terrorists against potential American domestic terrorist threats. It’s not hard to see how these tools would quickly be used to crack down on any form of dissent.
Can We Blame Moderate Politics for the Next Mass Shooting?
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Every time there’s a mass shooting, partisan members of the media scour social media and public postings to see if the perpetrator had a political agenda that they can blame as extremist and therefore responsible for the latest massacre. What’s going to happen when they find that the killer is a boring centrist moderate swing voter?
Bill Clinton: I Did Not Have Sex With Those Underaged Foreign Woman
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Bill Clinton seems highly vulnerable to charges that he may have shared accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s predeliction for underaged prostitutes and sex tourism as records of the pair’s travels to the Far East emerge.
The System Isn’t Broken. We Need a New System.
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To his credit, presidential candidate Julian Castro retweeted an image of yet another black man being choked by an aggressive white police officer. Not so much to his credit he failed to grasp that the problem is systemic.
