Thursday, October 19, 2023

10 Thought-Provoking Quotes by Famous 20th Century Authors, Courtesy ChatGPT and Google Bard

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Illustration by the author, with AI assistance. I asked ChaptGPT for a list of the top 20 authors of the 20th century. I then asked Google B...
Friday, October 13, 2023

What is Nakba 2?

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One of the challenges for many Americans trying to follow the current crisis in the Middle East is the lack of familiarity with some of the ...
Thursday, October 12, 2023

Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August: A Crucial Read for Government Leaders Today

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THROWBACK THURSDAY The current horrors in Israel/Gaza left me speechless here for a number of days. Today I felt that this 2009 blog post ha...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

The End of the World

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When I was young I had a Herman's Hermits Greatest Hits album. One of the songs was "The End of the World," which had been ori...
Wednesday, October 4, 2023

15 AI Illustrations Based on a Cowboy Theme

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This week I painted a cowboy. Last night I used it as a prompt to make a dozen variations using AI. Below is a photo of the original paintin...
Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Scrooge's Question for Our Times: Hope or Doom?

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For my family it has been a Christmas eve tradition to watch the George C. Scott version of Charles Dickens’ timeless “A Christmas Carol” ea...
Sunday, October 1, 2023

New Game Show: "I Have An Opinion"

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"I have an opinion" In case you missed it, there was a short-lived game show introduced a couple years ago called "I Have An ...