Twitter was a mere prototype in 2006; now, many of us have become adept at saying all we have to say in 140 characters.

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

I am no technophobe. I like being able to calibrate communication, depending on the situation - texting for the simple and immediate; email for business or when I want to put some lag time into the exchange; Twitter to promote something; Facebook to draw a crowd.

Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strike in our front yard, right here, right now.

One of the least appealing aspects of modern presidential candidates is that, to avoid saying anything that might prove to be an embarrassing, costly blunder, they cling to a rigid set of talking points that reveal as little as possible about what they really think and who they really are.