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My sister Clare was eight years older than me, so she was equal parts sister and legend. She saw the Beatles! She was in Los Angeles during the Watts riots! She lived in Hawaii! She lived in Germany! That age…

I’ve been in charge of MoreTimeThanSense since 2022. We’ve been chugging along at a modest loss, about $100 a year. Sure we haven’t turned the corner to profitability but in that same time span SpaceX has lost over $13 billion.…

150th entry of More Time Than Sense! Thought I’d let an AI chatbot evaluate the site and see what it says. I chose Anthropic’s Claude, the least evil AI chatbot. Well, at this exact moment of time anyway. First I…

April is National Poetry Month. What if you read a poem a day for the month? What’s the worst that could happen? You can register with the Poetry Foundation’s Poem-of-the-Day and they’ll send you a link to a different poem…

The Sunday comics were so sacrosanct in the twentieth century that when there was a newspaper strike in New York in 1945, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia (yes, that La Guardia) took to reading the comics aloud on the radio. At…

“The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.”  — Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835 Ordinarily it’s best to let current events fade into the rear-view mirror…

What Jim Was Listening To, that is. Every year I create a playlist of songs that piqued my interest for that year. It helps remind me of what I was listening to and also serves as a reminder not to…

Well, probably. Just not sure which of my words won, since they’re all such bangers! adacity the double dipping greed of streaming services where customers can pay extra to avoid ads that the streaming service is also charging companies to…