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ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19:  John Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. His novel Of Mice and Men helped win him the award,...

Today’s stupid decision is… Another day, another remake of Idiocracy inside the Trump White House. No, he isn’t irrigating crops with Gatorade... yet. But he...

It’s a question people have been wondering about for years: Would marijuana be a competitor to alcohol if it were legal? Now a new study...

ARIES March 21-April 19: “Weaseling out of things is important to learn,” said cartoon anti-hero Homer Simpson. “It’s what separates us from the animals — except the weasel.” I normally don’t share that sentiment. My standard advice is to face up to challenging ...

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Dear Dan: I recently ended things with a guy I liked because he wanted to stop using condoms, but he balked when I said we should both get tested for sexually transmitted infections. He said he felt I didn’t trust him. I tried to explain that trust has nothing to do ...

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ARIES March 21-April 19: The British science fiction TV show Dr. Who has appeared on BBC in 40 of the last 54 years. Over that...

ARIES March 21-April 19: Nine-year-old Fatima Santos told the San Francisco Chronicle her opinions about the movie Toy Story: “If I had to make a movie like this, I would make it funnier. I would make Mr. Potato Head look funnier than he already does. I would put ...

Funding frackers...

So I’m on the D train rolling north on Welton Street in Denver when I come across a headline that mentions “THC-infused smoked salmon.” I’m intrigued, since it involves two of my favorite things, and even more so when I notice the Huffington Post story is about a ...

Dear Dan: My boyfriend and I met online to explore our kinks. We’d both been in relationships with kink-shaming people who screwed with our...