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Taking the High Road
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 to sleep at night. This...
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Fukushima: the First Cancers Emerge
Oliver Tickell writes at CounterPunch: The Japanese government has made its first admission that a worker at the Fukushima nuclear plant developed cancer as a following decontamination work after the...
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The 25 Most Important Zombie Movies Ever Made
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, when...
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How we became the heaviest drinkers in a century
Chrissie Giles on her generation’s climb to Peak Booze. I first met alcohol in the late 1980s. It was the morning after one of my parents’ parties. My sister and I, aged nine or ten, were up alone. We...
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Your Job Is Literally ‘Killing’ You
For all of you long-term un- or under-employed disinformation readers, live long and prosper. From the Wonkblog: People often like to groan about how their job is “killing” them. Tragically, for some...
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You Talkin’ To Me?
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 this blog!) Thus, please...
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Sleepwalkers feel no pain, remain asleep despite suffering injuries
American Academy of Sleep Medicine via ScienceDaily: A new study of sleepwalkers found an intriguing paradox: Although sleepwalkers have an increased risk for headaches and migraines while awake,...
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India is training ‘quacks’ to do real medicine. This is why
Priyanka Pulla asks if there can ever be legitimacy in ‘quackery’. Aditya Bandopadhyay has treated the sick for more than twenty years. He works in the village of Salbadra, in the state of West...
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Gene editing saves girl dying from leukaemia in world first
In a breakthrough case, genetically engineered immune cells have successfully killed off cancerous cells in one-year-old Layla’s bone marrow. While it’s too early to determine whether the cancer is...
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These Mean Streets
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) suits...
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100 Plus Studies Concur – Cannabis Beats Cancer, Yet It’s Still Not Legal
Phillip Schneider via Waking Times: In 1996, California was the first state to legalize the use of Cannabis for medicinal purposes. Since then, the past decade has been ripe with research into the...
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The GOP “Debate”: A Report From the Front Lines
I’m just a cab driver. But unlike the current GOP front runner, even I know that the debt ceiling is about paying back the money congress has already borrowed on Americans’ behalf. And I know that...
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A Foggy Mourning
They’ve been warning of a big El Niño in California. Say it’s gonna cause great landslides in the wake of this historic drought. But of course, they qualify that it won’t do much for the drought....
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To Break Big Pharma’s Stranglehold, Doctors Vote for Ban on Drug Ads
The U.S. and New Zealand are the only two countries in the world that allow direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs. (Photo: A./flickr/cc) This article originally appeared on Common...
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The Driving Range
I’m all Paris-ed and “let’s throw up barbed-wire fences to keep us free“-ed out. Feeling kind of dark. So, please indulge as I pitch this one ride out there, to cheer us up… Thursday 10:30am: It’s...
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Podcast Episode 3: Pagans & Prisons
Compelling stories, ambient recordings, and interesting background music, woven into a radical pagan tapestry with a high audio-geek quotient. Via Gods & Radicals: In episode 3, we hear from...
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Gravy, With a Side of Cancer
Thanksgiving week is usually slow. Reeeeel s l o w . . . Thanksgiving proper, Citizen’s Cab lowers the gate (cab rental) for us drivers down from $91 to $61, as an act of mercy. A cabbie...
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Monsanto Put on Trial for Crimes against Humanity in The Hague
via Sustainable Pulse: The Organic Consumers Association (OCA), IFOAM International Organics, Navdanya, Regeneration International (RI), and Millions Against Monsanto, joined by dozens of global food,...
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STOP! KEEP CLEAR!
So, nothing’s wrong right now. But something’s not right: Is it the changing seasons? That undisclosed wet stuff falling from the sky in San Francisco? Mass shootings? (Nah.) The holidays? I took a...
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Crafted Recordings Podcast Episode 4: Dreams, Enchantment, & Living Magically
Via Gods & Radicals: “In an age where we are confounded with rampant materialism, where our lives seem dictated to us by machines and prior programs, what does it mean to live magically? You and...
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