New Orleans       Not all bizarre news is about the presidential election, especially in what passes for modern warfare.  We’ve been amazed at the use of drones by both sides in Ukraine.  Now, pagers were detonated in Lebanon as an Israeli strike against Hezbollah, killing a dozen and injuring close to 3000. First, I should explain …

            New Orleans       I’m not a gamer.  I believe some might be good and interesting, but it’s past my bandwidth, patience, and curiosity.  I don’t do it, but I understand its attraction when there’s time to kill and boredom knocks at the door.  What I didn’t understand fully until reading a report recently in …

Frankfurt         There’s a pattern evolving for me that is starting to take shape as a campaign, even if it also feels like it’s becoming a personal obsession.  I’m talking about terrible customer service handled ineptly by sundry companies, their robots, and artificial intelligence.  To be clear, it’s not just their automated systems, because these call-prompt …