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Big Tech Cuts out Conservatives May. 10, 2019
The biggest threat facing our democracy and the integrity of future elections isn't foreign interfer... Read More
Extra, Extra! Newspapers Found Dying May. 07, 2019
I know, I know. Fake news! Media bias! Intellectual arrogance! That's my old profession, the newspap... Read More
Short Takes on Territorial Trivialities and Nursing No-Nos May. 06, 2019
Don't Sweat the Trivial Stuff Remember the war in Afghanistan? That is, the longest war in U.S. hist... Read More
Short Takes on Republicans Gone Wild and Robocall Reflux Apr. 29, 2019
Enough Already The longest-serving Republican state legislator in, of all places, Iowa announced Tue... Read More
The Liberal Media Is Not Always the Liberal's Friend Apr. 25, 2019
So Joe Biden is in. He's not millennial, not female, not a member of a racial minority. That's a pro... Read More
Stopping the Campusfication of American Life Apr. 19, 2019
Many people, years after they graduate from high school and college, have nightmares about taking ex... Read More
Questions for Chase (Away) Bank Apr. 17, 2019
I have been a Chase Bank customer for years. Who knows how much longer it'll be? Will the company's ... Read More
Android Rage Apr. 16, 2019
I'm so tired of these supposed magician multitaskers on their cellphones. The guy I'm dating and so... Read More
Short Takes on Overly Aggressive Eating and Vacuuming Apr. 15, 2019
Hold Your Fire Law enforcers deserve credit for exercising restraint under extreme duress as they re... Read More
The Dictionary Adds 'White Fragility' Apr. 12, 2019
One of strangest developments in today's internet culture is how website dictionaries, which one mig... Read More
Bird Beaks and Lunar Conjunctions Apr. 06, 2019
The bird's beak is shaped to fit the food it eats. The hummingbird has a dainty dipper suited to hol... Read More
They Were on a Break Mar. 29, 2019
Sarah and Mark were engaged when she was "a very young 19." "I truly loved him, but few months prior... Read More
Mug Shots Live on -- Even for the Not Guilty Mar. 23, 2019
When the suspect of the Christchurch, New Zealand, mass shooting was led into a courtroom, photograp... Read More
Lyricism Lost in the Mourning of a Massacre Mar. 22, 2019
The good news is that the technological revolution and social media have produced the swiftest and t... Read More
When Anti-Semitism Is Reduced to Bitter Farce Mar. 15, 2019
Politics has always exploited the pop culture to reach "the people," but in our identity-conscious t... Read More
I've Been Silicon Valley Sharia'd Feb. 27, 2019
Last week, the little birdies in Twitter's legal department notified me that one of my tweets from 2... Read More
The Attention Trap: Why We Suffer in the Social Media Economy Feb. 21, 2019
By now, many people are aware of the fascinating experiment conducted by Microsoft to track and inte... Read More
Beware of the High-Tech Hustle Feb. 01, 2019
The culture pendulum swings inevitably and inexorably, and its wide arc often surprises us. Labels a... Read More
Bigger Threat: Russian Social Media or Mexican Drug Cartels? Jan. 30, 2019
Which is a greater threat to the United States? A shipment of heroin smuggled across the Mexican bor... Read More
