No-frills chain unveils 25% rise in annual profit as it embarks on cost-cutting strategy to limit impact of higher wages Wow, the title alone says it all.. Company reports profit but being … Continue reading Card Factory reports profit surge but warns on national living wage

Wikimedia claims Swedish court decision means tourists who take selfies at famous landmarks and spread them online could be in violation of law Poorly written article because it ends with the following … Continue reading Wikimedia’s free photo database of artworks violates copyright, court rules

Everyone is now making vague noises about offshore tax havens and how they should be shut down, or regulated, or something. But the plain truth is that no one really wants to … Continue reading Everyone Is Freaking Out About the Panama Papers—But the Biggest Fallout Is Yet to Come 

Decriminalize consensual behavior. That way we can focus on real digital harm. What the article is pointing out is that we should not be prosecuting teenagers for sexting other teenagers, as you are creating … Continue reading Teenage Sexting Is Not Child Porn – The New York Times

And how has the Democratic Party behaved particularly differently? How many of you are serving mochas with a master’s degree or struggling with health issues you can’t afford to attend to — … Continue reading The case for Hillary Clinton — and against #BernieOrBust

World leaders arriving in Paris this week for U.N. Climate Summit were greeted with hundreds of spoof billboards mocking what activists see as the undue influence that corporate interests hold over the talks. The … Continue reading Hundreds of fake ads totally skewer corporate sponsors of Paris climate talks

They don’t hate ‘our freedoms.’ They hate that we’ve betrayed our ideals in their own countries — for oil. Source: Why the Arabs don’t want us in Syria – POLITICO Continue reading Why the Arabs don’t want us in Syria 

This move is the classic hallmark of how a government propagandizes its citizens: ensuring that they hear only those views of which the government approves. Wow, this is truly crazy, going after … Continue reading UK Media Regulator Again Threatens RT for “Bias”: This Time, Airing “Anti-Western Views”

The numbers tell the story. The teachers’ retirement fund is short about $9.6 billion. The school system owes more than $6 billion to its bondholders. On Wall Street, Chicago schools have the … Continue reading School of Debt: How to Bankrupt Public Education, Chicago-style

Scientists create artificial skin, made from mouse stem cells, that integrates successfully and even sprouts hairs when transplanted into another mouse. So now it’ll behave, look and function like skin. Wondering how … Continue reading Promising lab-grown skin sprouts hair and grows glands 

“Bernie Sanders supporters on Twitter have taken over the medium once again, this time to use Hillary Clinton’s own words to protest her policies.” Hillary’s had it. I think she’s unravelling. She … Continue reading Twitter Just Reacted to Hillary Clinton Flipping Out on Climate Activist

In a move that puts California at the forefront of efforts to raise wages for low-income workers across the country, the Legislature approved a sweeping plan Thursday to raise the minimum wage … Continue reading Historic minimum wage measure heads to Gov. Brown