Scott Pruitt, perhaps the worst of all Donald Trump’s administration picks (and damn that’s saying a lot), made a mockery of the confirmation process and the job he’s applying for when he answered a Senate committee’s questions today. Having already made part of his career willfully denying climate science, fighting to dismantle the agency he now…
Facebook just might be laying the groundwork for mind-reading technology that would let you order from Amazon, search the Web, and play video games just by thinking ‘it’. Forget for a moment the hurdles the company has to overcome for this to work. Why does the vision of this future resemble a nightmare? Think viruses and ransomware…
We know how folk of sound mind viewed the results of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. With horror and disbelief. While for many the fear and sadness lingers and somehow deepens with every passing day, the good news is that in the weeks since the election the putrid prelude to the presidency hasn’t totally overwhelmed the…
If a thin-skinned, small-handed huckster as disciplined and cerebral as Homer Simpson can get elected president of the U.S., then a monkey and a deer having sex — though not natural — isn’t the weirdest thing that happened in 2016. Verdict:
On December 31st, it seemed that when most of the globe was ringing in the New Year, the celebrations were mainly about ringing out the Old Year. For most, 2016 was a year of huge losses on so many fronts. But thanks in part to the world of politics, where those of opposing views dug their entrenched…
The Washington Post reports that “Americans are dying from a rash of pathologies, sicknesses and addictions that experts call “diseases of despair.”” But don’t believe for a moment that this collection of disease is limited to the U.S. It’s a global thing. The question is, what’s at the source? What are so many people missing…
If you want to see what an epidemic actually looks like, you don’t have to go far. If you live in America, or Canada, it’s right around your corner. Don’t feel like going outside? The NY Times provides a great view you can enjoy from your armchair. Amazingly, when a terrorist wreaks havoc on a…
“He auctioned off the pistol that killed Trayvon Martin. She watched her child die in a mass shooting. Can they change each other’s minds about guns?” That’s the big question in the lead of a stellar read in NY Magazine. Whether minds were changed or not in this instance, you’ll have to find out. Missed, perhaps,…
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