I said I was cashing out on talking about difficult topics like politics and religion on Twitter, etc. Then I read the paper this morning (which I need to stop doing – news-reading should happen after writing, otherwise my brain is much too…

So Apple came out with its big new deal today. It’s more or less a giant iPhone with the alarmingly terrible name, iPad. Oy. Virtually every woman I know who heard it said that it sounds like a feminine hygiene product. I tweeted that…

- So apparently I’m not being an alarmist when I fret over the future of our brains. Study shows kids spend every waking minute online. In related news, parents “can still make rules and it still makes a difference.” You don’t say!

- The…

It was Friday night. I felt restless and alive, a formerly huddled mass yearning to be free. Having long pondered the folly of interacting with others out of a flimsy and incomplete construction of myself defined by “stuff I like” and “stuff I own”…

This may be one of the few times I ever find myself saying this, but I completely agree with Maureen Dowd about this and do not think she is overstating the problem. I decided awhile back never to talk on the phone while…