Too Late Smart

My grandparents, whose little farm was next door to ours so my sisters and I grew up effectively with two houses and two very different sets of parents, were lovely people.

The Promise of Self-Driving Translation

A controversy at a Christian publication this week gives us an unusual twist on the AI debate. The great medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas and self-driving cars now have something in common.

After the Summer

My friends Pat and Bobby visited briefly over the weekend.

I met them when Pat and I were in ninth grade and we both shot Miranda cameras. The last time I saw Pat, George W. Bush was president; the last time I saw Robert, Richard Nixon was. Pat now lives in Lithuania. Bobby doesn’t.

The Reason You Prohibit Things

You want less of them. That’s the reason. You may find that it’s too hard to stop people from doing the thing, literally blood, sweat, and tears trying to prosecute people, but that’s a different thing.

Congress's Mandated Gas Pains

A long time ago I was assigned the task of tracking down a guy named Guido Franch, who had some pills or pellets or something that he said would turn water into gasoline.