Unlike the past when technology eliminated some jobs but created others, the trend today is toward job elimination, according to writer Geoff Colvin. (“In the Future, Will There be Any Work Left for People to do?” by Geoff Colvin, Fortune, June 16, 2014, pgs. 193-200.) The chang
By now, the NSA has disabused us of the notion that an individual has a right to personal privacy. To be honest, most of us already give it away through blogs like mine or the comments we make on social networks. The Web is so much a part of our lives that we sometimes forget we a
One defense people make for big government is that it serves as a counterweight to big business. Unfortunately, the last tax-payer bailout of the automobile and bank industries gives little support to that argument. What’s more, recent revelations in Luke Harding’s new book, T
A few day ago, Susan Stoner, author of the Sage Adair Mystery Series, her husband-cameraman husband George Slanina and I met to tape the first 4 videos of our new book series, Just Read It. Laurelhurst Village Assisted Living served as our host and we were joined by four guests to d
I got a letter in the mail the other day from my cell phone company. I haven’t been under contract for years and my being a free agent makes them nervous. The promotion was for a deep discount on a smart phone. I’m don’t know why smart phones are called phones at all. Mostly peo
When I was a junior in high school, studying biology was a requirement. The material was interesting but one picture in our text always sent shivers down my spine. The photograph was of a toad hatching little toads from holes on its back. For me, the picture was repulsive. For my pube
Writer Kathryn Schulz was prepared to hate Twitter and the other social networks her agent assured her she must use to promote her book, Being Wrong. But in the end, she fell in love with the “bird.” Being limited to 140 characters per entry, Twitter forced her to sharpen her word
April 10 of this year I wrote a blog post about the ethics of piggybacking my work on to the sites of other authors. Some would call it marketing. Others would call it opportunism. My virtual book tour has given me a new set of questions. Followers have begun to drop into my Tw