COOL IDEA: Repairing Our Frayed Social Fabric

If you read the news, surf on the Internet or just breathe, it is hard to miss the social fragmentation breaking down the American and global social fabric.  Distrust, polarization, alienation, racism and tribal incivility have crept into our politics, our civic institutions and our Internet culture.   NY Times columnist David Brooks and the Aspen … Read more

COOL TIP: Grocery Shopping Secrets in San Diego County

Few San Diegans are aware of how many grocery shopping options are available to them.   Even fewer appreciate how San Diego County’s local produce is among the best in the world. Its temperate climate, sunshine and rich soils of the inland valleys makes San Diego one of the nation’s most diverse and productive agricultural regions.  … Read more

SCAM ALERT: The Internet’s Big Medical Liars

In our current black is white fake news society, there’s likely little surprise that the International Council for Truth in Medicine (ICTM) is a big liar.  In fact this so-called Council doesn’t exist — except to sell bogus diabetes and cardiac cures.    This not-so-clever Internet infoscammer offers two $37 “products”:  The Big Diabetes Lie … Read more