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...
by Steven J. Manning | September 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
I fancy myself an astute observer of people and life. Some people collect stamps, memorabilia, music, dolls, zippo lighters, bottle caps, happy meals toys, rocks. And too many people just collect bad habits. I collect people and stories. Then express my observations,...
by Steven J. Manning | July 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
There was a time when so-called French intellectuals were valued. Specifically, people who LEARNED and KNEW a bit about a lot of things. Not much depth in anything. Very interesting dinner guests. And amazing pseudo-intellectuals. What we have created in the US, as...
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