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'If AI "workers" are going to replace us, why should they be able to avoid paying taxes on the value they bring to their employers?,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

'My kids weren't late graduating because of bad grades or too many frat parties -- they were late because they couldn't get into basic general education classes,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

'All day, I felt better, having been reminded that there are millions of people in our country doing positive work every day to make the world a better place and to connect folks,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

'It seems to me no one in our nation's history has done a better job of manipulating our judicial system, which permits nearly endless continuances, special hearings, exemptions and appeals for the defendant with deep pockets,' writes an L.A. Times . ...

What you see out in the open is bad enough. It's what you don't see, or can't identify, that's more disturbing in the land of the free.

Sacramento's lack of a business-friendly focus has forced even homegrown industries to take manufacturing, with its high-paying middle- and working-class jobs, to Texas, Arizona, Florida and beyond.

The question is not whether predators such as Jeffrey Epstein exist, but whether we will listen to their victims and do something about what we hear.

'In addition to Chagas, American Red Cross also screens blood donations for other infectious diseases including HIV, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Syphilis, West Nile virus and Zika virus,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

'I think we'd all like to wake up every day and not have to wait and wonder what the next evil, and/or borderline illegal, action the federal government is doing to us, our friends and our neighbors,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

'Both loans can be your primary residence when they are taken out, but if you move, you have a new primary residence. This whole "mortgage fraud" thing is absolute nonsense,' writes an L.A. Times reader.