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Here are some things I’d like to see this year. And if not this year, then sometime soon, I hope.

1. Compostable produce stickers and/or paper-recyclable staples;
2. Abolition of marriage as a state institution. Why does anyone care who’s marrying whom? And why does the government have any say in what a marriage is or isn’t?
3. Eradication of bedbugs. Don’t you miss sleeping on strangers’ couches?
4. Large-scale barter economies;
5. Seedless lemons. Limes don’t have seeds. Clementines don’t have seeds. What is even possibly the holdup with this technology?
6. Flat-rate BART fares;
7. Universal health care;
8. Cure for hangnails;
9. Cold fusion or Higgs bosons. I’ll settle for one or the other;
10. A lifted Honda CRX. Given where I live, it’s only a matter of time, really;
11. The sun settling down just past west Oakland as many times as possible;
12. A paycheck.

What’s on your list?