It sure seems you have to spend a lot of time battling against absurd obstacles in this much-touted digital age. It’s nothing so simple as making your computer and cell phone hardware work with their software – I’ve given up on that. You just have to bite the bullet, hire an “expert “ to help… continue reading »
Our times, this 21st Century, have finally built the Tower of Babble. Theoretically, everyone of us on the Earth has today the ability through the Internet to add our voice to the already scrambled mass of opinions daily assaulting our ear drums and eyeballs. The words pouring forth today from all these mouths are –… continue reading »
Several people who read my occasional Blog have faulted me on how “moderate” my criticism of Donald Trump has been. Why, they ask, have I written that we should watch him in action as president a few months before beginning to pass final judgment? OK, permit me to explain. I have never liked Trump. The… continue reading »
Since the beginning of the prevailing digital age, I have used a computer. I admit that it and the Internet have made many tasks easier. But I am not a convinced fan to the extent many people see them as such marvelous boons to mankind. A current cyber attack that closed down many major websites… continue reading »
A brand new book helps me for the first time begin to actually understand what the great political divide between the two available party candidates is really all about. The surprisingly optimistic California sociologist Arlie Hochschild has written a thoughtful book called, “Strangers In Their Own Land.” It is a summary of Arlie’s five recent… continue reading »
