How many of you remember dictionaries when you were a kid? I'm not sure the year a dictionary and my eyeballs connected (probably early in my education), but I do remember the Webster's dictionary … [Read more...]
Social Issues and Debatable Topics
Blog Crime and Copyright Infringment
Checked your blog for content theft lately? While the Internet has become an essential part of our lives, it’s also a rip-off channel for blog crime and copyright infringement thieves who steal copyrighted material. People steal intellectual property when copying your blog content to their sites. Sending threatening letters about copyright infringement to website and [...]
Hard Times Selling Memories to Pay the Light Bill
Did you know that Charles Dickens wrote “Hard Times” because he needed the money? Flash forward to 2009 in the U.S. where people–mostly elderly–sell their gold and silver jewelry, cameos, old rosaries and music boxes to profiteers. Memories of their lives no longer to be kept. Gotta pay the light bill. Thankfully, Tyre, Bailey, Roberts [...]
Fort Hood Reminds Us of Veterans and the Ultimate Sacrifice
And we still remember Ford Hood a year later. The incident reminds us of veterans and the ultimate sacrifice. Written and performed by Jeanie JaeCie Cunningham. 1. How can we look in your eyes, and not feel the pain of empty broken hearts… Aching with hope for another day, for one more hour. In matter [...]
Health Care Reform Stifled by Drug Companies
The Washington Post reported two unrelated stories that, considered together, demonstrate a concerted effort by large drug companies and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to kill health care reform. The reports are disturbing and reveal two major challenges to controlling health care costs in the U.S. First–and most disturbing–the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in concert [...]
Susan Boyle’s CD and the Magic of Live Audience Recordings
I picked up a copy of Susan Boyle’s first CD spawned by her appearance on “Britain’s Got Talent” and the viral results of her YouTube video. Her renditions of “I Dream the Dream” and the other eleven songs on the album with the exception of “Wild Horses” have lost their magic in the world of [...]
On the Day Nothing Happened
Tuesday morning pretty much started out like any Tuesday in our town People who still subscribed to newspapers and magazines found copies delivered on their front porches or in the mail. Web readers, after grabbing a cup of coffee, looked at their computers and mobile phones to read the latest local and world happenings. Early [...]
Smart Meters Invade Northern California
Over the past two years, so-called wireless “smart meters” to measure electricity have been installed in millions of Northern California homes by PG&E, our utility company. The company claims with great fervor that smart meters are accurate to a nano-kilowatt; home owners beg to differ, saying their electric bills have risen 20%-30% or more since [...]
Are Retailers Killing Off their Customers?
The news in this morning’s paper–front page–is the same. Retailers are hysterically worried about another “bad Christmas.” Consumers have tightened their belts, hidden their credit cards and won’t even walk into a retail store unless there’s a big “70% off” sign in the window. What’s going on? I think retailers need to step back mentally [...]