Does Hell Have Wifi?
If successful, the Portland bomb plot would have killed a record number of hipsters. Now the young and ironically detached are assessing what really matters in life: wifi.
View Article(Mass Murderer and) Pervert
Osama bin Laden was accused of murdering thousands of Americans, yet US forces who killed him found it necessary to smear him with revelations that he had a stash of pornography in his home.
View ArticleBeautiful Devices, Awful Art
When civiliztion began, media were simple and art was lucrative. Then Arianna Huffington came along.
View ArticleCapitalism Comes to China
In the latest manifestation of how consumer capitalism has transformed former Communist China, a 17-year-old high school student recently sold his kidney in order to buy an iPhone and an iPad.
View ArticleLOS ANGELES TIMES CARTOON: Video Police
I draw cartoons for The Los Angeles Times about issues related to California and the Southland (metro Los Angeles). This week: The LAPD is deeply troubled by three videotaped incidents that record...
View ArticleOff Target
A study by Stanford University and New York University has found that 50 innocent civilians are killed for every alleged militant/terrorist by U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan.
View ArticleLOS ANGELES TIMES CARTOON: How I Kept Worrying and Learned to Love Drones
I attended the Drone and Aerial Robotics Conference at New York University. I was terrified of drones…then I got to fly one myself. This is a long-form cartoon I drew for The Los Angeles Times op/ed...
View ArticleHere’s What the Really Big Deal Is About the Apple Watch
Originally published by Breaking Modern: People who have spent time with Apple Watch were startled to learn that they found themselves using their iPhones (you have to use it in conjunction with an...
View ArticleTake Out the Cameras First
African-American suspects, inevitably unarmed, have been repeatedly killed by police departments in recent months. Since we only have proof of police wrongdoing due to cellphone videos and...
View ArticleSYNDICATED COLUMN: Welcome to the Digital Dark Ages: Movies and Books Get...
Historians and archivists call our times the “digital dark ages.” The name evokes the medieval period that followed the collapse of the Roman Empire, which led to a radical decline in the...
View ArticleSYNDICATED COLUMN: FBI v. Apple Is Really About Edward Snowden
The fight between Apple and the FBI has been framed as an epic battle between big tech and big government. Apple, says the Obama Administration, is siding with “its business model and public brand...
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