DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: Is it live or is it ChatGPT – AI versus the world

The humans I encounter these days seem to believe every new technology, every new thing is better than what came before?Why do humans believe that?

OPINION: Joe Biden has played his cards – all bluff, no aces

President Biden is the defendant in a lawsuit accused of what Federal District Court Judge Terry Doughty calls “the most massive attack against free speech in United States history.” Yet the appeal Biden filed on Monday is devoid of even one winning argument in his own defense.

NOTABLE QUOTABLES (July 20, 2023)

DUMB & DUMBER“(Abortion is) not dangerous. But what’s actually dangerous, what’s really dangerous, is forcing people – especially black women – to give birth.

COMICALLY INCORRECT by A.F. Branco (July 13, 2023)

OPINION: Biden declares war on profits

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre recently reiterated a point the Biden White House has been making for the past year: that inflation remains high not because of the Biden $6 trillion spending spree but because “high profit margins” captured during the COVID-19 pandemic drive up...

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: This and that – and when is a conspiracy theory not a theory anymore

This week I am writing my column from the state of Maine. I am here writing a story about sailing on a windjammer out of Rockland, but I am always thinking and inquiring about going down a rabbit hole – and this trip was no different.

OPINION: Heart-attack pushers Ben & Jerry’s hippie ‘Indian land’ hypocrisy

Way back in the Stone Age, shortly after the woolly mammoths disappeared, I was city editor of an Albany newspaper while Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield were mixing up exotic ice cream on stolen land across the border in Vermont.

NOTABLE QUOTABLES (July 13, 2023)

DEMAGOGUE“This MAGA majority on the [Supreme] Court has gutted affirmative action, blocked student debt relief for millions of Americans, and greenlit discrimination against the LGBTQ community. … Congress has clear authority to oversee the federal judiciary.

COMICALLY INCORRECT by A.F. Branco (July 6, 2023)

OPINION: Bidenomics is a BIG BUST

Word out of the White House is that President Joe Biden wants to tout his economic successes.He’s even embracing the slogan “Bidenomics” – which most people think is a term of as a term of derision and policy flops.