I wrote a piece on the immigrant child crisis but the news cycle moves so fast that the story is almost entirely lost a few weeks after it was hyped. I don’t favor separation of parents from children but I’m stunned how thoroughly the issue was politicized and the degree to which prior policy and […]

Suicide can hardly be more high profile than it is this week. Anthony Bourdain, Kate Spade, gone. Overall stats are all up considerably. It seems suicide is more than just a persistent pathology among troubled individuals and is starting to feel like a social movement. On the one hand, I cannot judge anyone’s ultimate decision, […]

To stay or to go that is the question. A lot of people are either thinking about going or pulling the plug. A lot more are simply laying low and wondering if Facebook is as bad as the news stories make them out to be, particularly when it comes to flaunting the data to every […]

Today, I ran across this article featuring the thoughts of Tim Berners-Lee, the guy that really did “invent the Internet” as we know it. The article is Tim Berners-Lee: we must regulate tech firms to prevent ‘weaponized’ web. The gist of it is that the big players now dominating the web have grown so large […]

In my prior essay, ‘Shootings’, I suggested that there is a way forward that would require both polar opposite sides of the gun debate to put everything on the table. “To the left, it is all about guns. To the right, it is all keeping the guns.” No one should be holding their breath. Suggesting […]

Unfortunately, shootings are now so common we tune them out. There are exceptions when the body counts go higher or if there’s something unique about the shooter or the victims.   The aftermath is now also so common that we tune it out. Usually it’s about the guns but I detect that now it’s just […]