The more you hear Mark Zuckerberg talk about the future of Facebook, the more you realize that his vision is not that Facebook become the biggest community on the internet or the biggest web site on the internet, but to become the internet itself... [Continue Reading]
Ben Thompson looks at Unilever's acquisition of DollarShaveClub.com for $1 billion and sees in it the seeds of destruction for massive consumer products companies like Proctor & Gamble. And because companies like Proctor & Gamble are the... [Continue Reading]
Behold the carefully calibrated hypocrisy of the liberal New England congressman with a large gun manufacturer, in this case Smith & Wesson, in his district, Rep. Richard P. Neal. “My own position has always been: Be helpful in that every police... [Continue Reading]
[lead dropcap="yes"]I keep seeing links to photos and even videos of the "iPhone 7" that Apple is undoubtedly going to sell this fall, but which is still unannounced and held in secret. They invariably lend credence to the various rumors that (a)... [Continue Reading]
Fifteen or 20 years ago, this would have been incomprehensible to most people. But now, I'd say most homes now have some kind of Wifi in their homes and each of those networks need a name. It used to be that everywhere you went you saw "Linksys"... [Continue Reading]
At the end of May we purchased a new family vehicle, a 2015 Ford Transit Wagon, to replace our aging Buick Terraza minivan. It’s quite the upgrade. We’d had the Buick for about 10 years and we have been talking about replacing it for the last five... [Continue Reading]
[lead dropcap="yes"]Alison Gopnik argues that we shouldn’t use the word “parenting” to describe the act of raising a child. After all we don’t turn “husband” or “wife” into verbs. But the use of “parent” as a verb suggest that we’ve turned it into a... [Continue Reading]
[lead dropcap="yes"]I'm convinced that in 2008, Barack Obama didn't expect to win. At least at first.[/lead] When he began his run for the White House, he was a first-term junior senator after being a state senator in Illinois for three terms. No... [Continue Reading]
[lead dropcap="yes"]There is one item on the menu of the world's largest restaurant chain that owes its existence to Catholic piety and penance: The McDonald's Filet-O-Fish. I don't think that's any surprise to my Catholic friends, but it is... [Continue Reading]
Radical pro-abortion Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave an interview to the New York Times over the weekend in which she discussed the recent ruling that overturned Texas' law that required abortion facilities meet the same basic... [Continue Reading]