We were behind the Russkis. While we were busy lobbing softballs into space, Yuri Gagarin circumnavigated the globe and turned the United States into a second class citizen. And then John Glenn trumped him by making three circuits around this mortal coil and then everything was good again, for a while anyway. The sixties started […]

We go where our friends are. Spotify pushed the envelope, created the new paradigm, Apple broadcast that streaming music was safe and everybody else… Can forget about it. You’d think the press would say no-go. Say something critical about Pandora. But reporters’ powers of analysis are nonexistent, they just repeat the press release. And even […]

I don’t like it when people I know die. I was just sitting in my car, checking my email to see who abused me. That’s the nature of life, being misunderstood. We yearn to be known, and the end result is we’re not, we pass from this life, vanish into thin air, but our presence, […]

It didn’t work then and it won’t work now. Makes me want to give up my membership in the card-carrying elite, the educated members of our society who can hold two opposing thoughts in their brain at the same time who just can’t fathom that Trump won and want to keep focusing on his inadequacies. […]