‘You can’t charge a person with murder when they’ve only got a parking ticket…Sharon Stone…….’ Web Publication: Daily Mail, UK, by Danielle Zoellner In the ongoing revolution against sexual harassment, it’s time to chronical further developments. I present the article featuring the sentiments of Sharon Stone as reported by Danielle Zoellner. While the Daily Mail […]
Archives for January 2018
TIR 1/22/18: ‘Why Apple’s Tim Cook doesn’t want his nephew to use social networks’
Why Apple’s Tim Cook doesn’t want his nephew to use social networks Web Publication: Market Watch, by Mike Murphy This brief article is not exactly news nor is it unique. Plenty of tech notables have confided their reservations about the Internet connected life; it’s actually kind of a thing now in Silicon Valley. I do […]
Shithole Trump and Democratic Law
No one can doubt that President Trump is impolite, un-Presidential or even unhinged, whatever those words mean. This is not news to us. It has been proved hundreds of times over during the campaign and after the election. But he is nevertheless, the President. Upon Trump’s characterizations of some geographic entities being “shitholes”, the Resistance […]
Welcome Winston Smith
Most people probably can’t immediately place the name Winston Smith, but if I say, 1984, suddenly your recall starts to hone it to your high school reading list. Winston was the poor protagonist in the dystopian novel, 1984. His reality has become your reality in recent ‘1984’ news. I’d like to just point out three […]
Elitist Fair
Last night was the Golden Globes. Of course, I did not watch, I never do, I don’t care, but as a news junky, I do read the aftermath of this and many other similar occasions, so my impressions all come through the same general filter. In this regard, the Internet media is part and parcel […]
2017 Year-End Themes, Part 5, AI
This is the last installment of commentary of year year change, 2017 to 2018. AI (artificial intelligence) is tech and I could have left it as a paragraph or two within the 4th installment but decided to give it its own special treatment. You’re surrounded by AI. It’s now part of your smart phone, your […]