These days, I’m subserviant and a slave exclusively to data and information, not to the whims and the wishes of anyone who might want to control how and why I believe. It clearly frustrates quite a bit of people who might somehow see this as a sign of my ultimate demise. I know this because … Read more
When my best friend was exploring options for where to take their soon-to-be 91-year-old grandmother for a New Year’s Day brunch, they were handicapped by the fact that the nearest and what they saw as the most fiscally responsible option that was open was a Burger King. When I heard that was under consideration, I … Read more
I always thought it was called Throwback Thursday, a day I was encouraged to participate in by someone once close to me who would typically find the time to post some sort of memory from their past and amplify their social media following, Frequently, those memories were from provocative modeling shoots. I kinda liked those … Read more
My mom, rest her tortured soul, didn’t offer much sage advice during her truncated life that has stuck with me at all lo so many decades later. But two, usually delivered with a gravely, scolding tone, do still stay ingrained in my essence: Cover your mouth when you cough. If you have nothing nice to … Read more
Pity yesterday was a relatively slow news day. It gave media outlets, and not just the usual suspects, the bandwidth and time to devote attention to the equally awaited and feared release of unredacted documents that at long last put actual names on the rumored alliances and dalliances of the notorious Jeffrey Epstein. Sure, outlets … Read more
So Claudine Gay is out as Harvard’s president, mere months after she was elevated to such a prestigious position. Plenty of people with more extreme views than I are doing victory laps over this, and those still in her camp are decrying this as yet another concession to what they see as the cancerous influence … Read more
I have a friend, or at least I’d still like to think that person would say so, that frequently reacts to these musings, good and bad. Since I know a thing or two about the value of engagement and loyalty, I suppose I should be grateful that this person feels compelled to react at all. … Read more
You’ve probably gotten more than a few chuckles in the last year from those who have mined comedy gold from George Santos, the now former New York congressman. Days after he somehow was elected, reports surfaced that he had fabricated quite a bit of his CV and background, VOX’s Li Zhou recapped it tersely but, … Read more
I’ve spent a great deal of my professional career utilizing a skill set where I am able to synthesize and process information and opinions from hundreds, sometimes thousands of people, and dispassionately distill the material takeaways to invested parties. I’m even able to do that when I have a room full of a dozen or … Read more
It’s been one heckuva yAIr–er, year, if you’re in any world that’s impacted by tech. Which, means, of course, if you’re currently a citizen of Earth, and are an actual human being. If references to those kind of qualifiers seem either alarmist or simplistic, well, chalk it up to my relative naivity in all manners … Read more