Some things need to be taken with a grain of salt, some with a whole salt box, but science explained for the non-scientific? Start shoveling, if general comments mean anything. The Earth Is Not Flat? Yes, it’s a discussion point, but for who? Who hasn’t seen something called a globe and […]
BREAST CANCER: A MOTHER JONES FACEBOOK POST ASKS IF ALCOHOL IS A CAUSE. WHAT ARE OTHER CANCER CAUSES?
April 12, 2018 by
From motherjones.com: Susan Sontag once wrote that telling people about your cancer diagnosis tends to fill them with mortal dread. But when I’ve disclosed my illness to friends and told them that alcohol can cause breast cancer, I’ve never invoked enough mortal dread to deter anyone from ordering a second drink. Most women […]
FACEBOOK DATA SALE: KNOW WHEN YOU’RE ON THE AUCTION BLOCK
March 31, 2018 by
Sharing has its drawbacks. Like a literary critic reading a book and coming to a different conclusion than the author intended, we share events and locations and feelings on facebook, and it gets misinterpreted by data harvesters. Search for a car and suddenly the car you’re searching for shows up on facebook […]
FACEBOOK DATA BROKERS GET DIRTY WITH OUR MUD
March 19, 2018 by
The numbers are too big to fathom. $42 billion loss in market value? 50 million users had their data harvested? All we want to do is post a nice cat picture, not get sucked into some weird vortex of data mining. Don’t get me wrong, I like mining, but for the right […]
GUN TALK THE WRONG WAY … AGAIN
March 14, 2018 by
Raw Story posted a gun column about white men and guns. It was the sort of gun talk white men with guns shouldn’t identify with. “White men stockpile guns because they’re scared of black people and feel inadequate, science says.” That’s the rawstory title. It’s raw, but even more, it’s lazy, but a site called […]
DEMOCRAT PARTY OFFICIAL WEBSITE PHONE CALL
February 16, 2018 by
I got the call last night from the Democrat Party, and like a story that goes public after signing non-disclosure statements, I felt a sense of freedom. The phone call on my land line, yes I still have a land line, was a money call. One hundred dollars was the starting point. […]
A TIME LONG AGO AT A HIGH SCHOOL FAR FAR AWAY
January 27, 2018 by
North Bend Oregon High School, class of 1973. What’s so special? Like later generations staking their claims to, ‘the first digital generation’ or ‘the first paperless generation’ or ‘the first generation raised on video games,’ the generational niche of 1973 is ‘the first modern generation.’ Born of the roaring ’50’s with TV dinners […]
FACEBOOK WINGS ON AMERICAN AIRLINES
January 18, 2018 by
I stood across the concourse, the airport hallway, from my check in studying my boarding pass with Group Nine printed on the bottom right side. Group Nine is last to board, last to sit, and last to find an overhead bin for the carry-on. Luckily my wife and I were flying […]
APACHE TEARS HAPPY ENDING
January 17, 2018 by
“Let’s meet one of my facebook friends,” I said one day during a Mesa Arizona visit. “You met someone on facebook and you want to meet them?” she asked. “You never want to meet anyone.” “Yes, I do. We’ll go prospecting. He knows where to find Apache tears,” I said. […]
