It’s dark. It’s early. It’s Monday. And my new “medicine” didn’t keep me from a sleepless night. Still, I am cabbie. And this is San Francisco. There are paratransits, dregs and (yyyaaawwwnn)…
Crime
Bernie Suarez via Activist Post: A Senate oversight report just blew the lid on the U.S. military worship ceremonies we all see at sporting events all over the United States. We see…
Tricking Passengers, Your driver spent the week working on a treat, getting San Francisco TAXI: Life in the Merge Lane… (Book 2) out the door. (See cool promo vid at end of…
Rob Virtue via Express: Authorities reported a group of five men hunting without licences was attacked by the big cat at a private game farm near the Kruger. Matome Mahlale, 24,was killed…
Remember the “Purge” that was supposed to happen last Halloween where hordes of bloodthirsty tweens and teens were going to go on a murder spree? This year the Fear Porn Du Jour…
Jim Vorel via Paste Magazine: From the living dead to the walking dead to the typing dead, zombies have completely and utterly suffused 21st century culture. And that’s a pretty weird phenomena,…
It’s 11:30am on Thursday and I’m cruising the Haight for flags, $24 into the green… I’ve been good about not drinking or abusing nighttime cough syrup over the last week to get…
Terrence McCoy via Washington Post: It began with a painting, a biologist and an idea to disprove the widely-held axiom that trees are static. The biologist first affixed a paintbrush to a…
Tuesday 10:28am: I’m cruising east up Market, away from downtown. It’s just me and Citizen’s Cab #137 fishing for fares, as we cross the brink into the Loin… There’s a dude flagging…
Bob Black, “The Abolition of Work” via Primitivism: No one should ever work. Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you’d care to…
I took some days off, for the soul… to “think”. Each time my kid came home from school to find me on the couch staring into space, he gave me crap, “Dad!…
Well this is bizarre. Louise Kelly via Independent: A 24-year-old woman who went missing from her home in 1984, sparking a 31-year-long murder mystery, has been found alive and well. Computer science…
Monday 4:15am: I haven’t slept. Well, I haven’t slept well. Okay, okay, I admit it… I relapsed into nighttime cough syrup abuse. And sedatives of this type are widely reputed to rob…
In 1968, 11-year-old Mary Bell strangled two boys, aged three and four, in Scotswood, an inner-city suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne. via Wikipedia: Independent accounts from family members strongly suggest that Mary’s…
This article originally appeared on Activist Post. By Daisy Luther The ink is still wet on a brand new executive order that reads like a cross between the Reich’s Ministry of Enlightenment…
This article originally appeared on Activist Post. It has been republished here under a Creative Commons License. Real or fake, these mass shooter events are pregnant with consequences. After the Sandy Hook…
Can you really be allergic to weird white people? One Florida gang member tried it on with a judge, reports the Smoking Gun: A wonderfully quotable Florida gang member who tried to…
Philippe Gastonne via The Daily Bell: A few lines in a seemingly routine RAND Corp. report on the future of technology and law enforcement last week raised a provocative question: Should police…
Prof. James F. Tracy via Global Research: Since the end of World War Two the Central Intelligence Agency has been a major force in US and foreign news media, exerting considerable influence…
Ethan Indigo Smith via Waking Times: “Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.” ~ Pericles Everything is ultimately political these days,…
High noon: I’m coming up on a red at 7th, heading west on Market. The Tenderloin. There’s an empty Yellow just ahead of me at the light and an historic F line…
Jeff61b via HubPages: Americans of all stripes love to debate which president was best or worst. This is a subject that is too important to rely on opinion polls, which are skewed…
Rmuse via Politics USA: For several years, if not decades, Republicans have, and still do, claim that any American who is not anti-government, anti-taxation, anti-women’s rights, anti-immigration, anti-theocracy, and anti-democracy is a…
Noam Chomsky via Alternet/TomDispatch: To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here. Throughout the world there is great relief and optimism about…
How did the banksters stay out of jail? The Atlantic investigates: In her first major prosecutorial act as the new U.S. attorney general, Loretta Lynch unsealed a 47-count indictment against nine FIFAofficials and another…