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AI offers the great potential to improve human lives, from problem-solving and efficiency gains to increased productivity. To date, I have not seen any sign that the political polarization that characterizes our society has affected AI. However, I believe it’s coming. On March 5, 2025, the Arizona Republic published an opinion piece by EJ Montini,…

The Department of Education under the Trump administration has declared that the thousands of book bans implemented in communities across the US over the past few years, a form of censorship that violates the First Amendment, are actually a “hoax.” This dismissal of reality, as though the book bans are somehow a years-long mass hallucination…

As a writer who is also a bullying prevention educator, I feel compelled to remind everyone that the notion that human gender falls on a spectrum is based on science. It’s a fact. In other words, it’s reality. The idea that gender is binary is not a fact. It’s not reality. It’s based on ideology…

I had dinner with a friend the other night, who told me that he ended his marriage. Well, technically, his marriage had been over for years, but he had reached the point where he could no longer continue living a lie. His wife was devastated, and his grown children were very upset. My friend feared…

This post is for anyone considering buying an EV but is reluctant due to range anxiety. I was one of those people until a month ago. Even though I knew that just about all my drives were 10 miles or less, I still had difficulty with the idea of not having a quick and convenient…

As a bullying prevention educator, I’ve spent quite a bit of time explaining the concepts and nuances of juvenile bullying behaviors to teachers, principals, parents, and students. What helps to make these abstract concepts understandable are concrete examples. JD Vance’s posting of an embarrassing video of a teenage girl on social media to mock Vice…

We got our first EV (pictured), and while we were out on a Boston Harbor booze cruise celebrating a couple’s fiftieth birthdays (yes, you can go back to your twenties, but trust me, you don’t want to), I struck up a conversation with another guest who told me a long list of reasons why EVs…

Recently my family spent a week in London, a rescheduled trip that had been cancelled due to Covid. My wife and I wanted our boys to experience the city where I had spent a month in college and my wife had spent a summer while in college. We saw all the sites and, as a…