During a television interview about partisan politics, Republican, David Gergen, said a great divide existed between the Republican Party in the Watergate era and the one that exists today.  The difference, and I paraphrase here, is that Watergate Republicans put the country before t

Wishing for the good-old-days, makes me look old-fashioned, no doubt.  But I wish for them, all the same.  The electronic age has complicated my life in so many ways.  I’m in a perpetual race to manage the upgrades, master new apps and avoid hacker traps along the way

In a recent opinion piece, Clive Thompson begins with the question, “What do you do when you discover you are wrong?” (“Retraction Heroes,” by Clive Thompson, Wired, Feb, 2018, pg. 034.)  He goes on to extol the merits of an evolutionary biologist, Daniel Bolnick, who pub

NBC TV host Megan Kelly and Jane Fonda squared off recently during an interview in which Kelly asked Fonda about her cosmetic surgeries. (Click)  Fonda was caught off guard.  She’d come to promote her latest theatrical venue and wasn’t expecting a girly snarl.  The question str

For the very rich, collecting art isn’t for love but for money.  (Blog 2/20/17)  In today’s world, investors are looking for guarantees.   (Blog, 6/20/17)  They want a fixed price for a famous work they put up for sale.  Otherwise, they risk lowering