Are Americans in need of parental figures to guide them through the complexities of life?
When I was a junior in high school, in the middle of Richard Nixon's first term, I took a course in civics. Back then,...
Three phases of my life (so far) as represented by the foods I ate.
Yesterday my husband and I attended a spring training game - the Oakland A's vs the Chicago Cubs - down in Phoenix near the...
1961’s West Side Story is hailed as one of the greatest movies of all time – certainly in the musical genre – so Steven Spielberg had some huge shoes to fill when he set out to re-adapt the iconic Broadway show. Here is where his version stands out.
Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev be put to death for his monstrous crimes or spend the rest of his miserable days confined in a small cell?
I recently attended my 5th Netroots Nation Convention. I was on staff with the convention for the first two years when it was the...
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
~B. F. Skinner
The year is 2110. IBM has just completed work on the...
So many memes, so little truth! There's a wide divide between the "observations" and predictions that inundate us from the MSM and reality, especially around election time.
As a lifelong MA resident, I was mightily impacted by the recent battle over control of the revered Market Basket grocery chain. First thing this morning I went into my local Market Basket. The shelves are empty, they were stocking dry foods. The produce section is bare. There were three steaks in the case.