“Sumawka Caller”

People talk a lot these days about the good old days. The front porch in the evening. Neighbors who knew your name. Supper at the table with the whole family. A handshake that meant something. They say it like they are describing treasure. And they are right. It was treasure. But here is the part…

To everyone who has been reading along, I owe you a straight word. After a couple more posts like this one, we will stop posting on Facebook. This is not a goodbye. It is a change of address. I want to tell you why. And I want to tell you where to find us. You…

I asked when the madness ends. How about what comes after. Because a fight is only worth having if you know what you are fighting for. So let me paint the picture. Here is what it looks like when the dust settles. It starts with good paying jobs. Work that lets a man or woman…

It is a fair question. Most of us have asked it out loud. At the kitchen table, or in the truck on the way home. We watch the news and shake our heads. Then we turn it off and go on with our day. Here is the hard answer. The madness ends when we the…

There was a time when a person’s word was enough. If you said you’d do something, you did it. If you broke something, you owned up to it. If you got it wrong, you said so and made it right. Nobody wrote that down as a rule. It didn’t need to be written. It was…

Today I set out to hook a new water meter up to my home Wi-Fi. It was a small job. A meter, a little circuit board, and a handful of colored wires. I asked the AI to walk me through it. It did a good job. It explained how the meter sends a little pulse…

There’s an old line from a campaign war room back in 1992. Somebody wrote it on a board so nobody would forget what mattered. “It’s the economy, stupid.” Four words. Everybody knew what they meant. Thirty-four years later, that line is still true. But people aren’t asking anybody to remember it anymore. They’re asking somebody…

Most people treat AI like a vending machine. They put in a question, take out an answer, and walk away. Then they come back tomorrow and wonder why it feels like talking to a stranger again. That’s because it is a stranger again. Every fresh session starts at the factory. The AI doesn’t know you….

Some of you heard the melody the moment you read that title. Where have all the flowers gone -The kingston trio(lyrics) – YouTube You can’t help it. That song has been riding around in American heads for seventy years. Pete Seeger wrote it in 1955. He took the idea from an old Cossack folk song…

I read a column this morning from a British paper. It was written by an American who covers war and defense for a living. The headline said the President sold out his allies for Putin. I want to walk you through it, because there are two stories inside that column. One is loud and one…