This post is a deviation from my usual blather. But I hope you enjoy it anyway. Some Background I have long suffered from depression. I have been prescribed a broad range of pharmaceutical “solutions” that ultimately proved to be ineffective or so fraught with nasty side-effects that I’ve abandoned them. I’ve also fallen into some [...]
It’s been almost 7 months since Bill Moyers has left the PBS airwaves. It was a sad day for me. I grew up with Bill and his PBS presence. He was for me the rare, insightful voice of reason and balance in a world that my young mind found contradictory, corrupt, and just plain wrong. [...]
It’s clear why Google has released Google Instant: more profit. Anyone who’s used it realizes that it’s more of a nuisance than a help. It’s much like the annoying auto features in Microsoft Word. It just gets in the way. But it’s even worse than that. Google Instant is effectively censoring searches by encouraging its [...]