Choice August 12, 2021August 11, 2021 PRKR Up a little yesterday, perhaps on news that — in an entirely unrelated case — Intel failed to overturn a $2.18 billion patent infringement verdict (that they will now appeal). The connection is that PRKR’s suit against Intel is being tried before the same judge this coming February. (PRKR’s main suit is against Qualcomm. That one, in Florida, may begin later this year.) And so we wait. And wait. Like Bulgarian newlyweds in Casablanca. REPUBLICANS GO PRO-CHOICE When it comes to the right to spread a sometimes-fatal disease . . . and the right to keep the virus alive long enough for it to mutate into something that could be even worse . . . Trumpers are loudly “my body, my choice!” Not so a woman’s right to control her own body. (Herewith Barney Frank’s just-posted thoughts on guns and abortion.) THE REPUBLICAN WAR ON CITIES Turns out, this is a global theme that goes back centuries.