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Authors Need to Write About CRISPR Now!
Works of fiction and facts of history have long been absorbed by both lunatics and cultures attempting to create “the perfect” of a species. It is a topic which seems to drive the most unstable of creatures into positions of…
The Best Desk I’ll Never Have Again
We get crankier and pickier as we get older. It doesn’t help that I was eating my Halo oranges, taking my vitamins, eating some apples and knocking back orange juice yet still caught the creeping crude family members were passing…
Does New Yorker Magazine Have Any Reason to Exist?
On November 13, 2016 I caught the beginning of The New Yorker Radio Hour on WBEZ out of Chicago. I have _never_, even on CNN, which is really saying something, heard 3 people more out of touch with American than…
Do You Remember Email Blackout Periods?
It is rather amazing to be old enough to remember corporate mandated email blackout times. Yes younglings, there was a time when corporations would deliberately shut down their email servers for several hours during the day. Some would take them…
Getting Rid of Satellite or Cable TV
There has been quite a bit of talk around the country about cutting the ties with satellite and cable TV providers. No wonder. With “average” cable bills around $100/month many people are beginning to ask just how much they are…
Remember When Maytag Used to Build Products Worth Buying?
The sad part about being long in the tooth is being able to remember when companies actually made things worth buying. Not the new world order with incompetent Keller MBAs engaged in a death spiral race to the bottom, but…
When Does a Yuppie Become an Ouppie?
This question entered my mind while exchanging email with a couple of friends an one mentioned “Yuppies in snow shoes” and another responded “I was one of those Yuppies in show shoes.” This triggered a dangerous thought process in my…