Tim Ryan - Opinion

Coronavirus creating new business opportunities

Published by admin on Wed, 03/18/2020 - 12:02am

THE SCENE: A dark alley somewhere in the city just after midnight. A car is parked, its lights off. A man sits inside in the driver’s seat, waiting. Another vehicle slowly pulls into the alley and parks behind him. The headlights are switched off. After a moment the driver of the car that just pulled up gets out of his vehicle and walks over to the other car. He knocks on the driver’s side window. The driver rolls down his window.

“Yeah?”

“You got the stuff?”

“Maybe. You got the money?”

“Not till I see the stuff.”

Conspiracy theories another virus we need to beware

Published by admin on Fri, 03/06/2020 - 12:06am

BREAKING NEWS: The coronavirus was masterminded and spread by Budweiser to get people to stop drinking Corona beer.

Well, OK, not really. That’s not true, but it’s as good a conspiracy theory as anything else floating around these days.

I don’t mean to make light of the virus. It’s a serious matter, but so are conspiracy theories.

At a time when we need facts to deal with a public health crisis, the last thing we need is viral misinformation.

Conspiracy theories are dangerous.

If you don’t believe me, just ask “Mad” Mike Hughes.

What we have is failure to communicate, but thanks

Published by admin on Wed, 02/19/2020 - 10:47pm

This might come as a surprise to Mark Zuckerberg and the rest of Silicon Valley, but I’d just like to go on the record and point out that I am not a drone.

At least I don’t think I am. In this day and age of technological slavery, we all have to wonder. Do we even have free will anymore? (Give me a minute, I’ll ask Alexa and get back to you.)

I’m also thankfully not a Facebot, one of those people whose lives are determined by their Facebook pages.