Poor Ellen Goodman.  After years of having to look stuff up in the phone book, and then a few years of being able to look for things online, Siri, the ultimate electronic adviser, comes along.  Instead of being thankful, she is worried, and has come out of retirement to write  this column. Siri can do [...]

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In recent cultural news, Chaz Bono was eliminated from “Dancing With the Stars.” I don’t watch the show, but apparently the judges said that she “danced like a penguin,” compared her to an Ewok, and the general impression was that she stunk at dancing.  She was only put there to generate some controversy and hence, [...]

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A few days ago, I posted “A Modest Proposal to Deal With the Debt Crisis.”  It seemed like a reasonable idea at the time, and it still seems like my idea will work better than some of the other ideas being proposed.  As I write this, the Senate is working on a bill that the [...]

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