If there is a truth in this world, it is that media reports can seldom be taken at face value.  Note the recent article from Fox News. (Click)  It speaks of an FBI gag rule that prevented agents from revealing facts about Hillary Clinton’s emails.  The implication of a cover-up i

In the virtual world, humans become real at the touch of a computer keyboard and language is what we use to define ourselves.  Governments know this.  So do commercial enterprises.  They’ve been at work developing tools to determine what our keyboard strokes  and our word choice

I stopped listening to the political analysis of David Brooks and Mark Shields on the OPB News hour long ago.  Their remarks strike me as less insightful than wisdom be gained by staring at ditch water.  But I was across the room one evening, cooking dinner, when their commentary ca

Want  help from Amazon with a purchase or a product?  Here’s the customer service number: 1-888-280-4331.  May it do you some good.  Knowing the number did little for me when I called at the  behest of two of my book readers.  Both had written reviews for my latest novels, Bal

I have no idea why Aldus Huxley titled his futuristic novel, Brave New World.  I feel anything but brave just thinking about tomorrow. Technology keeps tearing ahead of us while our brains scramble to cope.  I’ve barely become acquainted with the world of illusion, which includes

On Facebook recently,  I ran across an entry that accused Hillary Clinton of being evil, a crime boss and a killer.  As a Hillary supporter, I stopped to ask the writer for  corroboration of his charges and reminded him that even in a free society, slander is a crime.  Getting  f

A recent edition of AARP magazine featured three Hollywood stars who are disrupting the perception that as women age, they become invisible.  Unlike the Brits who cherish older actresses like  Maggie Smith, Judy Dench and Helen Mirron, Americans are slow to embrace the notion of cha

The debate goes on about whether or not psychology and other branches of social sciences are true sciences. Can their research be subjected to rigorous  methods and the data verified by other researchers? The argument, pro and con, gathered  intensity, recently, over the theory of â

If you were cast away on a deserted island with only one  choice for a companion, who would you chose?  The thief, the murderer or someone morally righteous?  I’d chose either the thief or the murderer.  The thief would have nothing to steal and the murderer would have  already

Women and society as a whole had a great day recently, when the US Supreme Court struck down a Texas law that regulated  abortion clinics so stringently, the rules would have run them out of business. (Blog 6/30/15) Texas insisted the regulation was intended to protect women’s heal