“Uncle Buck” (1989) is one of those films that you only appreciate when you get older.  I remember seeing it years ago; I thought nothing about it at the time.  Now that I’m the same age as Candy’s character (he died tragically young at 44, while Buck was written as a 40-year-old) I can’t... »

Recent reports that Mitt Romney has lessened or eliminated the so-called “gender gap” among female voters, which once so favored Barack Obama, has prompted renewed speculation that more Americans, regardless of sex, are switching their vote to Romney. Last week, a Luntz focus group of former Obama voters proclaimed Romney “confident,” “presidential” and “forceful”... »

The virtual world now is cashing in, to the tune of up to $500,000 daily, on online transactions, even though there remains a “legal gray area” about Bitcoin. But the growing popularity of the anonymous, decentralized, digital currency is prompting concern among users and law enforcement agencies that it may be misused. Since its... »

Google has been described as having a “stranglehold” on the search engine market, which theoretically could make or break anyone on the Web. So does it? “Google definitely ‘sandboxes’ websites,” asserts Jeff Ramos, a branding, social media, and public relations expert based in New York City. To be “sandboxed” is to be excluded from... »

Over the years I’ve done a lot of freelance work.  As anyone who has been in the business — any business — for any length of time can tell you, there is a good chance that at least one of your clients is crazy. Service businesses like writing, voice acting, and editing are, in... »

It’s a fact that the protagonists of long-lived action fiction eventually reach an age where it seems improbable, if not impossible, that they could continue doing what they do without ending their latest book in traction — or a nursing home.  Recently, a poster writing as “Wraith270” at the MackBolan.com discussion forum offered this... »