We are in a heap of trouble. No, I’m not talking about the climate change issues enunciated recently by the UN panel. Those are scary- but we might be able to change that course. If we work together and properly.
Continue reading Pandemic of the Uninoculated
I have decided to interrupt my queue, my discussion of millennials and their issues. To join in with several hundreds of others for today’s discussions, as proposed by the Boston Globe.
Continue reading Definitely NOT Stop the Presses
OK. I am going to show my age. Not that I shy from it- I’ve earned the stripes I own. But, back when I was younger, I had to lie and say I was older. So that folks would take me seriously. (Yes, I passed for 18, 21, and 30 long before people faked ID’s to get a drink of booze- for business reasons.)
Continue reading Seeing <> Believing
We are all worried about Russian and Korean bots. But, it turns out, they just help us be the biggest problems of all.
Continue reading The Talmud is Still Relevant (of course!)
So, tell me what would you do. You find out that one of your sites is being populated by someone who is promoting a canard. To denigrate someone else’s point of view, he’s claiming a young person is a trained actor, spewing words he was told to memorize, and doing it badly.
Continue reading No bots (or trolls) allowed
I routinely use a virtual disk and use an alternative eMail address when I peruse the web. I don’t want anyone to be able to insert a bot or a virus on my computer that will leave me unable to peruse my data- more importantly, I don’t want anyone else to examine the contents of my computer.
I admit it. I am one of those folks who engages in political discourse all the time. And, with folks from every aisle. (It’s no longer appropriate to claim there are only two aisles- since the GOP is split into at least five factions and the Democrats into at least two. Plus, there are fringe elements that are not represented in our government. Thankfully!)
Continue reading Don’t confuse me with the facts. My mind is made up!
We have a problem in America. (The problem extends around the world, but I am most intimately familiar with what goes on here.) We have government officials (and political flacks) who never answer THE question. They deflect, they modify the question so that their canned answer can be employed- without providing the answer to that burning question that was posed.
Continue reading The Russians AREN’T Coming. They’re already here!
I’ve been writing this blog (on this site and another) for a l-o-n-g time. And, the other day, I was seeking the first time that I ever mentioned a certain topic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM4_iz3RqE8&feature=youtu.be
Have you seen this video? More than 1.5 million folks have! USA Today is warning us that our boarding passes have lots of information that can put us at risk. But, USA Today started a trend. CBS News posted the same data. NBC, too. Among many others . OK. You get the picture.
Continue reading Containment. It’s not just for nuclear weapons.
