People stopped buying newspapers

"While no flying taxi exists yet, Uber has dared to estimate the 'near-term' cost of that San Francisco to San Jose trip: $43," the article reports -- suggesting that could create a new division in society. "With flying cars, the haves can escape to the air and leave the have-nots forgotten in their potholes." I've paid more for a taxi trip from SeaTac to Shoreline, about 24 miles.

Yeah, ten years in prison should turn him into a model citizen.

Clearly a horrible person, but life in prison? Many twenty year olds are horrible people but they usually grow up. Maybe it's time to talk limiting incarceration; perhaps five to ten years, for most offenses lacking physical assault.

Sharing germs to keep their little nanobodies up to date.

What could possibly go wrong?

in finding out what kinds of DNA is in my pocket,

I prefer my Doomsday vaults more than 200 feet above potentially rising seas.

Pass a law giving everyone a magic wand.

This means relatively fewer deaths from famine and disease. I dare hope that someday accidents will become the #1 killer of children.

Mathews and his crew track a stolen radioactive oil detector: http://www.hulu.com/watch/104147

He only eats what he kills?

Certainly the Disney Ducks but start out with Little Lulu. John Stanley's Lulu will keep you both laughing.

Nuts. If I don't have a natural right to my property then a state has no natural right to tax it. Back to square one.

I thought of Heinlein's "Let There Be Light."