Don’t underestimate those nuns

A very telling scene occurs in the movie, Promised Land—the film about two corporate salespeople, Steve Butler (Matt Damon) and Sue Thomason (Frances McDermond) who visit a rural town in an attempt to buy drilling rights from the local residents. The two represent an energy company specializing in obtaining natural gas through a process known as fracking, …

Despite other paramours, I’m still in love with my computer

Maybe it’s a part of the yearning for a slower, simpler world, a less digitized world when others— including the National Security Agency—didn’t have instant access to our privacy. Or perhaps it’s more a desire to touch and embrace an older vehicle for communicating. It could be both. I’m referring to the return of the …