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Blade Runners

Jesse Walker | 9.6.2003 11:51 AM

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The Wave answers the question on every San Franciscan's mind: Which mayoral candidates are human, and which are replicants?

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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  1. Mark S.   22 years ago

    According to this, we have at least three skin-jobs walking the streets!

  2. Tim McCaughey   22 years ago

    Who would have thought androids are already running loose in our political system?

  3. Andrew Lynch   22 years ago

    Nice job by John Holden at the Wave. But if we have so many skin jobs running around whoring for office...then who is their Tyrell? THAT, my friends, is the question with a terrifying answer.

  4. Mark S.   22 years ago

    Don't sweat it... All we have to do is wait for their incept dates to pass.

  5. joe   22 years ago

    So I'm going along, reading the article, and all of a sudden my screen starts showing landscape out takes from "The Shining." WTF?

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