by Steven J. Manning | December 10, 2025 | Finger On the Pulse
“Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…” Great line associated with Steven Spielberg’s famous movie, JAWS. Just when we think it is OK to go to sleep with the belief that the world will have changed for the better by the time we wake, the world,...
by Steven J. Manning | December 10, 2025 | Finger On the Pulse
Likely many readers have seen the “Tesla Takedown” nationwide protests March 29th. Exceptionally well organized, displaying great planning and coordination, and very well executed violent actions by many “protesters.” Five hundred locations including four hundred...
by Steven J. Manning | December 10, 2025 | Finger On the Pulse
Top of mind, in no particular order… “So much stuff (So Little Time).” – John Noir Smith, 2021. Keeping in mind the afore quoted, some “kinda” one-liners and one “multi-liner…” Immigration crises in the Americas (watch out Canada), Europe and elsewhere continue...
by Steven J. Manning | December 10, 2025 | Finger On the Pulse
Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams. How many people recognize much less know those names? However central, actually, indispensable to this massive story, they have been relegated to occasionally mentioned “bit-players” in that...
by Steven J. Manning | December 10, 2025 | Finger On the Pulse
“How can love so right go so wrong.” – The BeeGees. Or has it? Or are we being gas-lighted just a touch? The world, at least in the unconscionably massive US federal bureaucracy, stopped breathing for the past few days. Trump wielding a taser (stun-gun) to government...
by Steven J. Manning | December 2, 2025 | Finger On the Pulse
The world around us is swirling about us with vertiginous speed. Imagine living in a world where a nano-second is so last century! When the AI digital robotic taskmaster at my fingertips can actually admonish me for what I feel. The temerity, presumptiveness,...
by Steven J. Manning | November 28, 2025 | Finger On the Pulse
Ask Elon Musk’s incomprehensibly massive and powerful AI machine, DOJO, what are the most important affairs of the week. Yes. Give that some minutes. How about, just for fun (or is it), see Elon Musk asking King Charles to replace the UK government. Technically he has...
by Steven J. Manning | November 3, 2025 | Finger On the Pulse
In no particular order… Just when you thought politics in the US could not get uglier, while the Dems. and Republicans are in their perpetual, entirely undignified/despicable fight for political power, 42 million people stopped receiving SNAP benefits. That is...
by Steven J. Manning | September 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
Prologue… The more things change, the more they stay the same. Or as my intellectual snob father would insist that be quoted in the original French: “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose”. (1849 Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr) With the world spinning...
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