PARIS — Travel was upended, schools were closed and tens of thousands of people took to the streets across France on Thursday as railway workers, teachers, students and air traffic controllers went on strike to protest President Emmanuel Macron’s economic and social policies.
Are sex dolls for-hire prostitutes? These are the kind of tricky questions coming up as robot lovers make their way into our beds -- and maybe our hearts. By Leslie Katz @ CNet.com, March 23
WASHINGTON — President Trump fired his national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, Thursday and named John Bolton to succeed him, according to the White House [....]
How Trump’s Protectionism Backfires (2nd title @ site) Mr. Trump’s tariffs against steel and aluminum imports, designed to protect blue-collar workers, could instead undermine their livelihood. Has three national map graphics correlating voting preferences and industry economic effects by county; report required lotsa "homework"!
Good critical arguments concerning the philosophy of Stephen Pinker's new book, Enlightenment Now, The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress. Like:
If things are so much better, why do they feel, for so many people, so much worse?
Austin, Texas - As the Austin bomber sensed that authorities were closing in on him on Tuesday night, he took out his cell phone and recorded a 25-minute video confessing to building the explosive devices -- but didn't explain why he targeted his victims, interim Austin police Chief Brian Manley said.
[....] Ralph Peters, a retired Lt. Col. for the army and until recently a Fox News strategic analyst, decided to leave his post at the station after finally having a moment of clarity.
An armed student who shot two other students at Great Mills High School in Maryland on Tuesday morning has died, according to St. Mary's County Sheriff Tim Cameron.
