Who Here Voted for AI? Hands Down.
Image courtesy Wikicommons Like a tornado barreling across the Texas landscape, AI, Artificial Intelligence is coming, and like a Texas tornado, it is going to destroy everything in its path. There are estimates that as many as 100 million...
Read moreHistory Repeats Itself — 100 Years Later — Maybe….
Image courtesy WikiCommons History repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. -Karl Marx One hundred years ago, this year, 2,000 Nazis, then a relatively small and rather fringe political party in Weimar, German, marched...
Read moreWhere Is Everybody?
Image courtesy WikiCommons It was not so very long ago that human beings believed that the earth was the center of a very small universe. For those who spend their time on TikTok, that ‘not so very long ago’...
Read moreFox News Lied — No One Cares
At the eleventh hour and fifty-ninth minute, Fox News settled its lawsuit with Dominion for a staggering $787.5 million. Rupert Murdoch had no choice but to settle, the evidence against Fox was overwhelming. Many of my liberal friends were...
Read moreThe Netflix Curse – and the cure
In the beginning, there was broadcast. There were only three networks — NBC, CBS and ABC. If you wanted to watch TV, that was the extent of your choices. There was, of course, PBS, but no one went there....
Read moreHe Who Controls The News Controls The Future
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell wrote, “he who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.” He might have added, he who controls the news, controls the present. In Russia, Vladimir Putin controls...
Read moreDonald Trump is Going to be Elected in 2024
photo courtesy Gage Skidmore In August, 2016, I wrote an article for The Huffington Post entitled Donald Trump Is Going To Be Elected. As soon as I saw Trump, I knew he was going to be elected because...
Read moreWhy Most Documentaries Are Pretty Unwatchable
Ayn Rand – image courtesy Wiki Commons OK, let’s be honest. Most documentaries, and in fact, most non-fiction factual content (and here I am excluding reality TV shows) are pretty unwatchable. Yes, the content is both intelligent and ‘important’,...
Read moreThe Story of Harlem Live
Harlem, 1943 courtesy Wikicommons In the 1990’s, I was part of a very interesting experiment in local news called Harlem Live. The idea was rather simple. We gave video cameras to teenagers who lived in Harlem. We taught them...
Read moreIf I Say Somalia… Do You Think Pirates?
As my friend, Boyah Farrah, explained to me, “Somalia has it rough.” Boyah is the author of the new and quite popular book, America Made Me A Black Man (Simon & Schuster 2022). The reason I know Boyah is...
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