Let’s just make one thing clear: under John McCain’s health care plan, you can kiss your health care insurance coverage good-bye. As soon as employers can discontinue providing health care benefits they will. As soon as people have to go buy health care on their own, insurance companies will cherry pick the healthy and leave the rest of us to founder. If you have any health issues, you won’t get health care, or it will Read more…
I knew I was in trouble when halfway through the recipe I saw the state of my kitchen. Beet juice was splattered everywhere and the sauted apples in their bowl were precariously close to falling off a counter crowded with cutting board, strainers, and food processor attachments. No recipe was worth this. I got the recipe from Sunday’s Parade, and it looked great. Plus, I am a fan of Sheila Lukins — the cookbook she Read more…
I talked with an AI today. Salon had an article on a chatbot that was the most successful in fooling judges in the annual Loebner prize. So naturally I had to check it out. It’s name is Elbot. It’s by turns cheeky, philosophical, and obscure. Really, really obscure. James Joyce has nothing on Elbot. But what was interesting was the way my own side of the conversation evolved. I was friendly, chatty, open — in Read more…