Artificial Intelligence rats itself out. Unless you’ve slept through the last few months (and who could blame you if you did), you would know that the pundits are expounding on the vast...
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More Deadly than Caste
Three tiers of racist ideology. Bob Gordh In her recent bestseller Caste, Isabel Wilkerson sought to explain the nature of White Supremacist, (or simply racist) ideology in the United States. I...
Must Art Be Moral?
Can a scoundrel can make great art? The morality of a work of art is one of the oldest and most widely debated concepts in the art community today. The question is must we respect the artist as...
How Schools Can Smother Education
It’s time to reset our priorities. Bill Wood Let’s follow up a bit on the issue of imagination and how children develop through thinking about things they’ve never seen or...
She’s Baaaack!
Bugatti has stepped it up, but faces new competition Yes, she is back. We are talking about the Bugatti Chiron. Just when you thought you had heard the last of this 3 million dollar beauty, Bugatti...
Touring Southern Normandy
Exploring France’s medieval heritage. In two earlier articles we outlined tours of Upper Normandy (Haute Normandie), around the vicinity of its regional capital, Rouen. Now we move on to Lower...
The City from Nowhere
Half a century building a city while living in a tent. Although I left the friendly confines of NYC where I was born and raised, I still look forward to the Sunday NY Times as a wonderful weekend...
Robots…
Can’t live with ‘em, can’t run away from ‘em Recently while doing nothing, which I do quite well, I was startled by a mechanical noise coming from my bedroom. Trusty broom in hand I ventured forth...
The Black Tom Munitions Explosions
The terrorist attack no one remembers There are moments in history that forever live in the culture. Likewise, there are those moments regardless of their immediate significance that dissolve quickly...
Let’s Break Up the Union
I live in a blue state and I’m all for it. You should avoid arguing with the intellectually challenged. When you get into it with the uninformed, the uneducated, or the just plain dumb, one has...