Mattel is making a device to monitor children all the time and report on what they say and what they do.

"For people sick of high deductibles, Republicans offer high-deductible [medical] plans as replacements for [Obama's medical insurance program]."

Washington DC thugs encircled a large group of protesters, then attacked them indiscriminately with teargas, grenades and sticks, then arrested them all and charged them with the felony of "rioting".

I saw reports that some people were breaking windows that night. But that can't justify indiscriminately charging everyone who was in the vicinity. Nor, perhaps, such serious charges even against those who broke windows.

The targets of repression include six journalists.

Don't be taken in by the myth of the suppressed cancer cure. These so-called "cures" are quackery.

What is true is that the big pharma companies spend a lot more on sleazy marketing (including "gifts" for doctors) than on research, and that they direct the research more at chronic conditions of the wealthy part of the world than at curing diseases common mainly among poor people.

The troll is considering three potential saboteurs to put on the Supreme Court.

Each of them could be worse than Scalia.