Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed a silver lining, a single bright spot in this recession/depression/economic wasteland: that people are getting nicer to each other? As if, somehow, we’ve finally realized that we’re all in this together, and, if you discount the absence of bucks, “this” is not a bad place to [...]

So I think I’ve seen the future and I think it might work – not for me or us, and maybe not even for my kids, but for their kids, really maybe. Because this morning my daughter’s Kickstarter project became fully funded, a week before its deadline, which means that thanks to the kindness of [...]