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Scanning for Nuggets

By Dennis E. Powell | Jan 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM

In the early part of this century there was an imaginative musical ensemble, the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.

The Lost Revolution that Won

By Timothy R. Butler | Jan 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM

Through an exclusive breakthrough in quantum journalism, Open for Business has obtained a classified Soviet Union memorandum from an alternate timeline. The document from 1956 in that reality describes a service we never enjoyed, Tick Tock Radio (TTR), an initiative apparently key to that reality’s starkly divergent present day from our own.

Don't Get Desiccated!

By Dennis E. Powell | Jan 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM

In addition to its other attributes, winter is a time of low humidity. That gives static electricity opportunity to romp in its annoying way. It does dangerous things, too, such as making it easy for your city to burn down. We’ve joked for decades how January and February are the months of computer malfunctions, but it’s true: Static electricity caused by low humidity causes all kinds of otherwise inexplicable gremlins to invade our electronic devices.

Meta’s New Approach is the Best Attack on Misinformation

By Timothy R. Butler | Jan 08, 2025 at 4:20 PM

Meta’s decision to roll back its Big Brother approach to censoring speech will help the battle against misinformation far more than its more Orwellian efforts ever could. Counterintuitively as it may seem, this is the way to cultivate a culture of truth.

What We Can Know About 2025

By Dennis E. Powell | Jan 01, 2025 at 9:53 PM

There are things we can know about 2025 within a minuscule margin of error, and it’s worthwhile to know at least some of them ahead of time, for planning purposes. Many of them are things humans cannot change. Others are things that humans could change but probably won’t, for good or bad reasons.

In Defense of Snowmen

By Timothy R. Butler | Jan 01, 2025 at 5:23 PM

It’s New Year’s Day. As a kid, I noted it as the day Christmas ended. The music cut off on the radio, the lights went off around the neighborhood and, curiously, the snowmen came down all over, too.

Buying Stuff

By Dennis E. Powell | Dec 05, 2024 at 2:54 AM

Here we are, at sort of the end of the beginning of the spending orgy that starts the annual accumulation of debt in honor of the birth of Jesus. While the season should involve debt, it’s not the kind that can be redeemed by money and not the kind owed to the credit card company.

Let Thanksgiving Be Thanksgiving

By Dennis E. Powell | Nov 27, 2024 at 11:50 PM

Most every publication in the country has run at least one column or “lifestyle” story this month about how to get along with relatives on Thanksgiving even though they are evil fascists. (To which I’d add, or football fans.)

A Fur Peace in Time

By Dennis E. Powell | Nov 20, 2024 at 11:23 PM

Was it fate or just the path of least resistance? It’s been 20 years and I still don’t know.

In the autumn of 2004 circumstances too long and boring to explain gave me the opportunity to live pretty much anywhere I wanted. There was no particular reason, no special interest, leading me to one place over another.

And That's the Way It Is?

By Dennis E. Powell | Oct 23, 2024 at 11:11 PM

There was a time, longer ago than most of us who remember it would like to admit, when most people in the country could identify the three national television news anchors. Well, except for ABC; at the time it seemed as if ABC could not identify its own anchor.

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