The US has a shortage of skilled employees. Not for unskilled workers, however. What does this say about robots?

Perhaps robots doing skilled jobs are ok for the economy. However, replacing store sales personnel with robots is harmful. Please join me in refusing to use those robots — always go to the human sales clerks.

If you bring a book or computer, you won't mind waiting.

The saboteur of agriculture proposes to let pork plants inspect their own work, which would turn the inspection into a joke. The plants would also rush the workers, so they would more often be injured.

Thus, the workers would get more of one kind of malady and the public would get more of another kind.

(satire) … the city once known as Philadelphia will now be called DirecTV, PA, after the cream cheese company opted to discontinue its long-held naming rights to the city.

If the US attacks Iran, that could mean a world war, the US against Russia and China.

One important point of dissimilarity between the present is that, in 1914, none of the European powers had a way to mobilize only part of the army. Mobilization was a complex plan, and the only plan was for complete mobilization. This meant that a country which feared attack had to mobilize completely, which meant its other enemies had to do likewise.

If a country which had feared an immediate attack had had the ability to mobilize partially, that might have deterred its enemies while not threatening them.

There is no such problem today, with mobilizing reserves. But I don't know whether that makes a big difference.

One of the many benefits of a single-payer medical system would be that companies could not imperil employees' medical care, whether by firing them or in any other way.