Last night, Bill Maher became the most recent defender of Michelle Wolf’s performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner (WHCD). He echoed others by saying, “She did her job!” Yes. If her job was to create sympathy for Donald Trump. On April 28, the day of the WHCD dinner Trump’s net approval rating according to … Read more
A hypothetical point in time at which technological growth becomes completely alien to humans, uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable consequences for human civilization. Technological Singularity/Wikipedia The question is no longer, “Will we reach technological singularity?” Instead, the only missing variable is “WHEN will we reach it?” The answer, based on the attention to and rapid deployment of … Read more
BLOGGER’S NOTE: I occasionally skim through previous posts to see if they held up over time. At best, I am batting .500. This one, however, originally written as satire, unfortunately proved to be more truth than fiction. Disclaimer: One modus operandi of the Donald Trump campaign has been the creation and distribution of conspiracy theories about … Read more
Where you stand depends on where you sit. ~Miles Law Skeptics of the efficacy of Miles Law need look no farther than a six minute interview on this morning’s edition of CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” Co-anchors Becky Quick’s and Joe Kernan’s guest was Michael Wieder, president of Lalo, a baby products company founded in 2019 by … Read more
One of my favorite segments on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” is “Amber Says What.” It features Late Night writer and comedian Amber Ruffin in which she races through the most outrageous headlines since her last appearance followed by various intonations of the word, “What?” The goal is to share the absolute absurdity of current … Read more