In retirement, I’ve recently taken a part time job in a fabric store. Old journalist-turned-new-fiction writer, I couldn’t have chosen a better part time gig while learning creative writing. Going from the requisite “distant narrative” of journalism to the deeply personal “close narrative” of fiction is a process that doesn’t happen over night. Retail offers…
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“Longitude” by Dava Sobel offers a fascinating history of space, time, politics, science, intrigue on the high seas, and more — one of my favorite reads!
Hard to believe that little more than 250 years ago ships were wandering around the oceans with no accurate means to determine longitude. I recently, for the second time, read the book “Longitude” by Dava Sobel (foreword by Neil Armstrong). The story is beautifully written, giving us more than a glimpse into the lives, minds,…
Does the right to advertise supersede the right to privacy? The Facebook user vs advertiser conflict.
Remove the advertising from Facebook and you remove the need for privacy invading data that advertisers need in order to target users. Offer an ad-free alternative to its 2.52 billion users at a low monthly fee of only $5 each, with privacy, and its income would go from $55 billion to $140 billion. No ads…
If a corporation is a “Person,” what’s its gender identity?
If everyone is equal under the law in the USA, no matter our gender, then why is gender identity causing so many conflicts in our courts and greater culture? And if corporations are considered to be people under the law, then those corporations must also have a gender identity, which is what? And how can…
