Yasmin Nair, in “Rights Make Might,” gives us a damning picture of Hillary Clinton, the woman who  almost became the 45th U. S. president. (Baffler, Winter 16, No. 33, pgs. 37- 48.) One complaint the author levels is Hillary’s support for her husband’s welfare reforms during

When the housing bubble broke, taking with it the entire US economy, a number of people who thought they were middle class discovered they were poor.  Worse, they also discovered the safety net was so porous that many of them ended up with no job, no health insurance and a rapidly dw

My art collecting began with a student’s question.  “I have to copy a painter’s style.  Who would you chose?”  “Van Gogh,” I said, little knowing that when finished, the piece would come to me.  It has been on my wall for 40 years.  The moment I hung it opposite a sun

I opened the January issue of Wired hoping to  learn what magical algorithms were on the horizon for the coming year.  What I found was a publication stuffed with science fiction. The editor explained, “to get a greater sense of reality,” he’d turned to stories. (“The Power

As researchers probe into the secrets of our brains, we learn more about the characteristics of leadership.  Surprisingly, being smart isn’t high on the list   Good character tends to produce better workers and better leaders.   Does a person feel bad about a transgression, for

Continuing remarks from Monday’s January 2, 2017 blog. (Drawing the Red Line edition.  “Not Going Back,” by Gaylynn Burroughs, Ms. Magazine pgs. 20-25.)  Other woman’s programs to be affected. Women’s Programs Title IX – The Obama administration used Title IX to hold

You can’t make America great again if you intend to suppress the freedoms of women, who are half the population.  Last night I watched vice-president elect,  Mike Pence, vow to remove birth control subsidies for women under the Obama care act.  Why, he questioned, should people w

If I were allowed to interview the President-elect, I wouldn’t ask Donald Trump about his ties with Russia, or his misogynist views of women or whether or not actor Tom Arnold’s claim that the man is a racist is true. (Click)   I’d ask him what he was reading.  Apparently, he

A firehose isn’t the province of firefighters anymore.  A firehose is the gush of information people provide via the internet, particularly on social media like Twitter and Facebook.  Twitter makes a bonanza by selling access to its firehose to interested companies.  Recent repor