by admin | Feb 26, 2015 | News
This has been a season of cautionary tales about the abuse of technology. Just in the last few months, Russian hackers figured out how to get ATMs to cough up stolen millions; North Korea malwared its way into Hollywood; and Syrian terrorists produced a series of...
by admin | Jan 22, 2015 | News
I used to think of rock climbers as thrill-seeking hipsters who risked their lives in ever more dangerous situations just to keep the adrenaline flowing. No more. Last week, I tuned into the coverage of Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson, two Americans who were...
by admin | Jan 15, 2015 | News
In these days of talk-radio bloviators and tin-can patriots, it’s easy to forget that the so-called Founding Fathers, a loose affiliation of brilliant, brave, flawed, and privileged white men who laid the foundations of our nation, were actual human beings. That...
by admin | Jan 8, 2015 | News
This is going to sound judgmental, but it really isn’t. The previous owners of our place on St. Peters Church Road used the property as a dump. We knew this from the start, and what’s more, we’d been warned that there was very limited garbage pickup service in the...
by admin | Jan 1, 2015 | News
Postal workers pose a special problem for end-of-year gift-giving: all sorts of rules govern the things they’re allowed to accept. Carriers are allowed to receive gifts worth up to $20 at a time, but not cash or cash equivalents, like gift cards, and never more...
by admin | Dec 25, 2014 | News
In this season of rebirth, as we attend annual celebrations and ceremonies that can seem at once familiar and strange, I’m reminded of an ancient paradox: the Ship of Theseus. It’s said that the Athenians, keen to preserve the famous ship of the hero...
