Our 2019 City Council Endorsements
Whose city council? Our city council — not Amazon’s!
Twitter “Unintentionally” Used Your Phone Number for Targeted Advertising
Your privacy, their advertising dollars. Twitter is the latest to confess using email and phone security information for lucrative gain.
Sunday Comics
All my friends tell me something is getting together…I got a beard that would disappear if I’m dressed in leather. Now let me tell you about my baby, she would read the Sunday Comics sitting in the jail house trying to learn some good manners!
Free Thing of the Week: Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary
Gerald Horne’s excellent book on the great Paul Robeson’s life of art and activism is our Free Thing of the Week.
Free Thing of the Week: March for Science Posters
The Free Thing is back again! We dig into the recent past for these cool posters of women scientists.
Senate Antitrust Hearing Explores Big Tech’s Merger Mania
The new business model for tech companies isn’t to innovate. It’s to be bought by a larger company. Ernesto Falcon writes.
Zoning Laws Hurt the Poor the Most
The increased costs, monetary and otherwise, associated with zoning restrictions falls most heavily on the lowest end of the income spectrum. Michael Wilson writes.
Sunday Comics
Here’s Rawhead and Bloodybones, reading Sunday Comics, crouching under stair, lurking in chimney, pond or well.
Science Needs Myths to Thrive
The industrialization of science has made it more “competitive” but the stories that impart values to scientists are getting lost. Andrew George writes.
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