Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Putin's Coup Has Already Failed

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Keep in mind that Putin isn't as smart as he thinks he is. For his social media machinations to be really effective...
Thursday, July 5, 2018

The Statue of Liberty Protest as a Pseudo Event

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The Statue of Liberty protest was all about optics, not disruption.The people whose vacations were disrupted were random tourists from a...
Sunday, October 8, 2017

Response to: Nicholas Carr's "How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds"

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Funny how Nicholas Carr's  " How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds " in the October 6, 2017 1 issue of the Wall Street Journ...
Saturday, September 9, 2017

A Note About American Racism: We Are All Racists

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My former wife is native Venezuelan and I met her while we were both in graduate school in New York City in the 70's. We would watch Ame...
Friday, August 25, 2017

Why Are We Fascinated By Super Hero Movies?

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Why the recent global fascination with the super hero genre? Is it just the advances in CGI allows realistic portrayals of unrealistic abi...
Sunday, July 9, 2017

Why We Progressives Are Against #TraitorTrump's Proposed Space Program

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When I was young and people asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always replied "First man on the moon." Then Neil Armstr...
Saturday, June 10, 2017

About Bill Maher's Comment:

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Before we condemn Bill Maher we should consider the fact that we are ALL racists. He is a racist. You are a racist. I am a racist. That I ...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

Trump Advisor Tom Barrack Puts Lipstick on the Pig on MTP Sunday

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Just watched Trump inaugural manager Tom Barrack on Meet the Press. Barrack is a slick character, good at twisting the truth to put lipstick...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

"I Tweet, Therefore I Am" Launched Monday, January 16, 2017 on Amazon!

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Please enjoy at a special introductory price and then post your review here on Amazon!  Never has there been a more timely book or a more ...
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Sunday, January 8, 2017

Machinegenation? Humans Marrying Robots? Experts Say It's Really Coming

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Click to link to Amazon I deal extensively with some of the implications of the Singularity in "I Tweet, Therefore I Am" ...
Sunday, January 1, 2017

Sign the Petition Demanding a Reboot of The West Wing!

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Why settle for a fake real president when we can have a real fake president? Reboot the West Wing!  http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitio...

Understanding Social Media Through The Emancipation of Authorship

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Social media can best be understood according to the notion of "the emancipation of authorship" proposed by Andrey Miroshnevchenko...
Thursday, June 2, 2016

The Age of the Centaur

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For better or worse we are entering a time of human/machine symbiosis known as the Age of the Centaur. This term comes from the chess worl...
Monday, May 16, 2016

Jon Stewart — the enabler of Donald Trump by Steve Almond

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Steve Almond of The Boston Globe Misuses Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death" to Slam Jon Stewart The Boston Globe , ...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

Things Come in Fours

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Comparing Marshall McLuhan's Tetrad and Claude Levi-Strauss's Canonical Formula A bstract The figure-ground structure of a f...