Oh, yeah, Easter in the 1950s. A time when the Easter Bunny wasn’t either a capitalistic corporate mascot or CGI nightmare, but a slightly disquieting, floppy-eared creature you might encounter in a department store, smelling a little like second-hand cigarette smoke. For kids like me, ...
One cloudy and rainy morning, just after the freakin’ time change (because nothing says “tyranny” like the government taking an hour of sleep away from us), I awoke from a dream so vivid that I believed I was a time traveler. In the dream, I was running down the street, trying to warn my ...
Is artificial intelligence going to take over the world? The tech bros are taking turns predicting the future not just for themselves but for everyone. With politicians who think the Cloud is just bad weather calling the shots, this question haunts me. AI is advancing exponentially faster than ...
Capitalism recognizes individual effort, private ownership, and the pursuit of financial independence through hard work, innovation and competition. Unregulated savage capitalism prioritizes profit over social well-being. A ...
As a 16-year-old, when President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, my world stopped. Of course, we had no information about his very active social life, his purported involvement with the significant other of a Mafia figure, the hatred from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, the anti-Castro ...
At my current height and weight, I am overweight. If I gain 10 more pounds, my Body Mass Index (BMI) will reach the big 3-0. That would place me in the obese category. Since the 1990s, life expectancy in the U.S. has fallen behind other developed nations. This decrease in life expectancy is due ...
