What Would You Do?
If money were no object, what would you do? If your income were divorced from your work, what would you do? If you earned the same regardless of occupation, wha...
Month: March 2019
BBC Radio Essays
I would lie awake late at night listening to the BBC World Service on my shortwave radio, sometimes guided by a printed program guide, but more often than not t...
Impulses
ACTION REQUIRED, the e-mail demands, NOW. Give money. Sale! One day only! You might like this video. Sign our petition now or terrible things will happen! How w...
AT&T Fell for Media’s Inflated Sense of Self-Importance
AT&T was wrong to acquire DirecTV and TimeWarner. Now what?
Shards
If you mustsit inside on a bright and lovely day,focused--for definitions that mean unfocused--on the screen of a computer,not the world around,then the shards ...
Exit Numbers
I recall being supremely irritated when Pennsylvania changed the exit numbers on I-81 from sequential to numbers based on the mileage. My complaint was that I n...
Only the Emperor’s Clothes Change
It’s remarkable how little changes over time. Doesn’t this 1989 complaint of Audre Lorde’s sound familiar? “We are a territory of the most powerful ...