Choosing a Dumb Home: Say NO to Alexa, Siri, and Google
A long, long list of the dangers of a smart home. Why you should toss your smart devices and say goodbye to Alexa forever.
Poetry
How does analyzing poetry inspire writers? I wrote this piece in 1994 after a university education almost killed the artist inside me. I hope you enjoyed it.
You Didn’t Win Shit
Why do sports fans, who are characteristically watching from the stands or the sidelines or the couch, insistent on asserting personal glory?
Record This, Dumb Ass
Nothing is more rewarding than watching a student learn. But my enthusiasm is waning. It’s taken me twenty years to conclude my effort is madness.
Prove It
I hold my breath. I have to. If I let it out, it will carry unpleasant words. “Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one.”
Intelligencism: Bias Against Smart People
So, when you fail to label and celebrate the intelligent, when you mock and degrade us, you commit intelligentism and sentence humanity to extinction.
Do You Know More than a Fifth Grader? No One Cares.
Regurgitation, memorization, and recitation of information is not intelligence. Intelligent people creatively solve problems.
All Hail the Social Media Police
Beware the social media police. Be careful what you say – or what you think – in this dystopian future resulting from our present day misguided lives.
Art Ethics: Carry the Weight–Personal Responsibility for Image Manipulation
The last of five articles prepared for conference paper and presentation Seeing is Believing: The Ethical and Legal Ramifications of Digital Image Manipulation.
Throw it Away
Our world solution to dispose, discard, destroy is dangerous. Consumerism has led us to embrace a disposable mindset.We have to assess and adjust.
Introverts May or May Not be Shy
Introverts may or may not be shy. But it’s still none of your business. Private observers of life and living, understand the world of introverts.
Moments of Humanity
Our differences are window dressing. In our assertion of identity we fail to appreciate that humans share so many experiences.