So Microsoft is going to buy Skype for $8.5 billion. I just barely know what Skype is, which, if you know me, shouldn’t be surprising. With few exceptions, I view the telephone as a means, not an end. Let’s make the plan with it, not have it be the plan. My attitude toward it ranges … Read more
If you’re not yet past the dangerous fantasy that the radical elements in Islam are rather like the radical elements of any other world religion, I invite you to read this morning’s piece by Michael Knox Beran. The piece is different because rather than once again tiredly “proving” the obvious to a determinedly closed-minded sociocultural … Read more
Bo: “Nathan, you spilled sugar on the kitchen floor when you were making cinnamon toast. Go clean it up.” Nathan: “But I can’t see it!”