I wasn’t able to watch the impeachment hearings live, but I have seen selected highlights. Beth was able to listen to some morning testimony live, and she sort of helped me seek out things she thought were significant. In doing so, she had a take on it all I hadn’t expected: Regardless of the president’s […]

Drivers running red lights. Drivers causing gridlock. Drivers texting. Drivers watching TV on their phones. Pedestrians walking and texting or reading their phone. Bicyclists who don’t use those bike lanes we gave them. Pedestrians who walk in bike lanes. People who buy a damn plastic vest and slap it on their ill-trained dog and fake […]

Communication technology breakthroughs have always been scary and disruptive—the invention of the printing press, to name one, was considered an enormous threat to the of order of the day. As were inventions like the telephone and television. The technologies themselves have never been good or evil per se. It’s the behavior of  people who use […]

Last week I wrote about how our plans to surprise our friend Nancy to see Elton John together went awry. But we still managed to have a lovely time. Well, another plan has gone awry, and this one’s a little harder to swallow. We’ve had it all figured out for months: My organization, PHIUS, puts […]

The whole thing started months ago by a lucky accident. Our friend Steven bought a pair of tickets to one of Elton John’s farewell concert tour stops in Indianapolis as a gift to his partner Nancy—the two of them would celebrate their anniversary at the concert. Then about a week later, he forgot he bought […]