…….Last week’s column unleashed pretty vitriolic comments about my thinking on Freedom of the Press as it related to Jimmy Kimmel’s removal from late night television. I expected negative comments, but I expected those comments to be aimed at my words and the content of…
By Mark Patterson Visit any old-school barbershop and on handy display you’ll see an 1890’s looking fellow decked out in formal bow tie, form-fitting waistcoat, white riding trousers, and a (very tall) top hat. By all appearances the consummate man about town, “Clubman” clearly has…
Finding Joy in the Small MomentsBy Jeffrey & Mary Anne Woofter with assistance from Chat GPT One of the lessons Mary Anne and I have learned on this journey with Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s is that life has a way of shrinking down. The big adventures,…
By Mark Patterson Want to know something crazy? Our cable bill often soars to around $400 for one month. That’s not rewatch The Sopranos money. It’s the tribute Tony himself might send Paulie Walnuts to extract should you move to Jersey and begin making book on their…
…….I grew up in the “melting pot of America” where immigrants came to find their fortune in the dusty, dirty steel mill where they would perform backbreaking labor to secure their families’ future. It’s where a scarfer could make more than a bank president, live…
By Mark Patterson By some estimates, 600 MILLION cyber -attacks occur each day. Please advise whoever compiles those stats to raise last Monday’s count to 600 million plus one. I got hacked. Violated, humiliated, defenseless, -you name it, I feel it. Plus a few other…
By Mark Patterson Decades before artificial intelligence commenced those creepy imitations of human voices or began writing lousy articles on your computer’s home page, the stuff that Stephen Hawking warned would betray and potentially end humanity launched an assault that these days threatens the very existence…
……..I used to get Memorial Day and Labor Day confused when I was little. I knew one was at the beginning of Summer; One was at the end. As I grew older (and one would hope more knowledgeable) I learned that Memorial Day honored and…
……..I think I’m as frustrated by the New Cumberland Hydro Project as I was in 1994 when the legislation enabling New Cumblerland to get funding from it. It’s been almost 30 years since that happened so I’ll understand if you don’t remember, but since I…