Tag Archives: quality of life

Knowledge addiction–a problem needing a 12-step solution?

It’s a familiar scenario. Friends sitting around, question comes up: hey, what was the band in that song? What’s the name of the actress in that movie we saw the other day? and what else did she appear in? And someone is on it with the smart phone, producing relief within seconds…Ahhhh. The thirst for […]

August 12, 2014 – 2:36 pm | By Brent | Posted in Posts | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

124: older can be better

Congratulations to Harwich on defeating the initiative to “improve” Route 124. A predictable reaction to the decision in a letter to this paper complained that the existing road is scandalously old, dating back to the 1920s. Sometimes we carelessly use “older” as a metaphor for incompetent, as if newer always means better. But the argument […]

June 20, 2014 – 1:49 pm | By Brent | Posted in Posts | Tagged , , | Comments (0)