As the trade war heats up in North America and buying stalls because of price hikes, it’s time for advertisers and marketers to step in and blow their smoke.

I don’t have Alexa. Or Siri. Or whoever the latest glad-to-be-of-use nobody is. Don’t use Facebook or Instagram or X accounts.

Often, folks are driven to read reviews of restaurants before trying them out. But many reviews are too polite and sanitized and consequently insignificant as advice, such as water being served without asking is in bold type as a special treat.

Everything in Mexican mores and customs is about respect. It’s time for we foreigners to check ourselves to see how we met some of the tenets of expected good manners.

To help you appreciate the complete art of Lakeside’s popular Little Theater, I want to share with you what goes on behind the stage and into the hidden corners and corridors one never sees. It is often better than the show.

I hate to be the one to bring this to everybody’s attention, but a team from the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia and a neurotechnology company has developed an “electroencephalography cap,” coupled with a “generative artificial intelligence system,” that makes it possible to read minds.