It’s the business model, STUPID! It’s not about third parties utilizing your data to surreptitiously influence your beliefs, it’s about you coughing up your life story so Facebook itself can slice and dice this data and sell it to advertisers so you can be equally influenced. Sure, we need to question Cambridge Analytica, but even […]

Don’t trust anyone under thirty. I debated renewing my subscription to “New York” magazine. In case you haven’t been paying attention, with the drop in advertising, periodicals are raising their rates. Used to be subscribing was a no-brainer, the cost of a couple of issues on the newsstand. Now it can be the better part […]

My father was an early adopter. He was the first person in our community to have air conditioning in his car, an aftermarket installation in our ’64 VistaCruiser, and the first person to buy Michelins, my father swore by Michelin tires, before Sears rebranded them and drove them over railroad tracks to prove the superiority […]

Right Here, Right Now – Spotify Right Here, Right Now – YouTube I was alive and I waited, waited I was alive and I waited for this This song has been going through my brain all week. Maybe it was when I read about the Kentucky teachers following in the footsteps of those in West […]