On the surface, women made impressive inroads during the 2018 elections but were these advances window dressing? Is there an undertow to be considered that works against these achievements, particularly among white women who remain loyal to Donald Trump despite his sexist views? Tru
As one writer recently observed about Wikipedia, when it began it was “the dumbest idea in history.” (“The Great Upwelling,” by Kevin Kelly, Wired, October, 2018, pg. 43.) The reason? The service was free. How can an enterprise make money when there’s no fee? I wonde
In my upcoming memoir, I write about my second measles infection at the age of twenty-two. The occasion was memorable because it was my first brush with Britain’s National Health Service. The time was 1960, so the system, put in place in 1948, had been around for a while. To b
Writer Reihan Salem describes the libertarian promoters, Charles (77) and David (81) Koch, as “very, very patient.” (Click) In the 2016 presidential election, they and their cohorts spent $889 million dollars to support candidates who espoused their views. Most of those as
I am sick of Facebook. I’m tired of its cutesy messages. I don’t want to celebrate the fact that Rudolf Valentino and I have been friends for 3 days. Nor do I want reports on the number of “likes” my comments receive in a week. Frankly, Facebook, I don’t give a damn.
I’m reading two books for an upcoming taping for Just Read It, a book review program fellow writer, Susan Stoner and I air on YouTube. One book is a dystopian novel about life in a space ship after humans have destroyed planet earth, The Book Of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch. The sec
What frightens me about the generation that is building technologies to exploit the internet is its youth. I fear these visionaries are too inexperienced to be left in total control. Mark Zuckerberg’s motto, “Move fast and break things,” reflects the same rebellious attitude
The day I was to meet a friend for coffee, an unexpected email arrived from him. As the message was about a contract and included an attachment — my friend being a real estate agent — I assumed he had sent the message in error and forwarded it back to him. When we me
It’s a joke so old, I don’t remember the punch line. A guy stands up in a town hall meeting and shouts a number. People around him laugh. A second person calls out another number and again those present break into applause. The community is so accustomed to one another, they’v