SCROTUS want to weaken the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Making it easier for businesses and harder for people in wheelchairs -- isn't that just what you'd expect from Republicans?

There was a time when I had trouble walking, due to a knee injury. There was a time when I broke an ankle and needed to use two crutches or else a wheelchair. These problems of mine were temporary, but they taught me to appreciate the importance of the ADA, for those who are temporarily disabled and even more so for those who are permanently disabled.

If this enables the use of much less pesticide, I am for that. But that doesn't make it wise or safe to use neonicotinouds.

A US appeals court allowed a limited version of the bully's partial ban on Muslim visitors.

It has been cut back enough that it won't often lead to gross injustice. Miniature farm robots could deposit pesticides only on specific infested plants.

We need to work out how humans will prosper in a world of robots.

The example of hunter gatherers shows that people can be contented with life without having to work very much or very hard. But they did that in a highly egalitarian society, with no billionaire oligarchs.

Don't be fooled by Canada's green rhetoric: tar sands mining is the worst of the worst, combining CO2 pollution and toxic pollution.