“What is that sound? Is there an emergency alert on the TV? No, it’s your iPhone!”

The power has gone out in my neighborhood – during an orange alert, a few days after a record snowfall, and one day after I attended an organizational meeting for a county emergency response team. Like any other  [more...]

All those sci-fi novels are beginning to come true – the world ruled by corporations, senators who speak out against those “mutants”, fascist dictators controlling the population by manufactured fear  [more...]

I really can’t figure out the point of dating anymore. It seems, quite simply, to be an exercise in whittling away the ego and leaving the participants — or, at least, one of them — diminished. Take  [more...]