So you didn’t like Backpage because you thought it was involved in human trafficking? Well, you were wrong. But because you got your information from Cindy McCain and the federal government, you got what is now known as “fake news.” First, Backpage was never involved in human trafficking. Backpage has…

Railroads have been in the news for the first time in a long time due to what happened in East Palestine, Ohio. But they should have been there quite a while before, because they are a legacy technology that has been largely bought up by private equity companies who are…

A friend of mine who is my age (give or take a year), is in the process of training for Dancing with the Stars. He’s a Star. Don’t ask. I gave up dancing years ago, not because I wanted to, but because I didn’t have any willing partners. But I…

ESG and Me In the midst of a global flurry of supposed interest in climate change, I finally had solar panels installed on my house. …

I went through menopause before menopause was a “thing.” And before telling your daughter about the female reproductive cycle was a thing. My mother told me nothing except that she almost died having me (Jewish guilt) and that having a child is painful (not for me, I had two Lamaze…

This is my first time in New York, the city of my birth, in four years. Post-Covid (sort of) it is still a little frightening because it is always one crowd after the other. Pre-Covid I was not even aware of the crowds because I grew up among them and they didn’t matter. Now they have been converted to carriers of bugs. But I had to go back and see friends and family and, as I have now discovered, a city that I still hold dear even after more than 50 years.

Much of what we think of as the revolutionary culture of Web3 is a recycled version of the “penny stock” schemes that took place when I was growing up. Penny stocks were a replica of shares in public companies sold on the New York and American Stock Exchanges, only they…