quote [ The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court and obtained by POLITICO.

The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision – Planned Parenthood v. Casey – that largely maintained the right. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes. ]

quote [ Debarkle traces the history, events and subsequent consequences of the Sad Puppy/Rabid Puppy Kerfuffle at the 2015 Hugo Awards. ]

quote [ I’ve been angry and disgusted about a lot of things since Election Day. But over the past few days I’ve been angrier than Jack Nicholson’s character from The Shining to see all these so-called “progressives” come out of the fucking woodwork to crucify Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) for voting against one amendment to a budget reconciliation bill that could have allowed Americans to buy cheaper imported prescription drugs from Canada — even though the amendment wasn’t going to become law ]

quote [ That focus on security has put America�s technology firms on a collision course with its policemen and spies, who worry that encrypted e-mails and messages help criminals and terrorists to evade detection. That spat became public in February, when the FBI tried to persuade a court to compel Apple to hack an iPhone that had belonged to Syed Farook, a terrorist who, along with his wife, killed 14 people in an attack in California in December. The agency backed down after it found a way to hack Farook�s phone without Apple�s help. ]

quote [ More and more work activities and even entire jobs are at risk of being automated by algorithms, computers and robots, raising concerns that more and more humans will be put out of work. The fear of automation is widespread � President Obama cited it as the No. 1 reason Americans feel anxious about the economy in his State of the Union address last month � but its effects are not equally distributed, creating challenges for workers and policymakers. ]