Author: Tom Cronin
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Islamophobia, the KKK, replacement theory, and the fear of others | |Tom Cronin
What do President Donald Trump, former President Barack Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and New York City’s recent political shooting star Zohran Mamdani all have in common? According to the Human Genome Project, they share 99.9% of their genetic DNA sequences, and they can trace their ancestry back to relatively recent common ancestors. Yet…
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New biography details Mark Twain’s evolution as a political voice | Tom Cronin
America’s best known and most revered storyteller, Mark Twain (1835-1910), is remembered for his novels, satirical punditry and travel writings, but is rarely thought of as a political thinker and activist A lengthy and remarkably revealing new biography by prize-winning author Ron Chernow (“Mark Twain,” Penguin, 2025) highlights Twain’s evolution from a parochial pro-Confederacy, anti-abolitionist…
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‘Warfare’ : Movie about a mission and war gone awry | Tom Cronin
Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, General David Petraeus and Democratic Congressman Jason Crow of Colorado served, along with 1.5 million others, in U.S. military interests in the Iraq war that began in 2003. The U.S. spent at least $2 trillion, lost about 4,500 service people and was responsible for a few hundred…
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Who is government? A debate | Tom Cronin
Americans have been skeptical — if not hostile — to government bureaucracies since 1789. Americans generally view big government as bad, remote, wasteful and unresponsive, if not irresponsible. Americans, going back to the Anti-Federalist movement and the Whiskey Rebellion, have scorned national bureaucracy and yearned for local control and decentralization. “Bureaucratic man” has never been a hero in…
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March Madness, ‘Coach Gene Hackman’ and Cinderella teams | Tom Cronin
March Madness, men’s college basketball NCAA Division I national championship playoffs, begin Tuesday. Millions of us played youth and pick-up basketball yet seldom watch college basketball games — but do tune in to watch the much hyped and often thrilling end of season March Madness. More than $10 billion will be bet on these games over…
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Trump storms the Capitol — and gives mixed signals | CRONIN & LOEVY
Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy President Donald Trump is his own biggest cheerleader. He loves campaigning and he loves being a promoter — a promoter with multiple deals and multiple programs. He gave a lengthy, program-filled, blame-heavy, comeback-kid performance last Tuesday at the “Capitol Theater” in Washington, D.C. It broke the…
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Start-up to industry titan: Chip designer Nvidia and the AI revolution | Tom Cronin
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Tech giant Nvidia was founded in 1993 by three computer-scientist-video-gamers in the middle of Silicon Valley. They developed their plans at a local Denny’s in East San Jose. With no money and no investors, they…
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Start-up to industry titan: Chip designer Nvidia and the AI revolution | Tom Cronin
Tech giant Nvidia was founded in 1993 by three computer-scientist-video-gamers in the middle of Silicon Valley. They developed their plans at a local Denny’s in East San Jose. With no money and no investors, they began working out of one of their small homes. Today, 31 years later, Nvidia employs 30,000 people, is based in…
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Provocative new reads about predictions and probabilities | Tom Cronin
“The Singularity is Nearer When We Merge with AI,” by Ray Kurzweil (Viking) “On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything,” by Nate Silver (Penguin) What happens when you read back-to-back books by a quirky celebrity computer scientist and a quirky celebrity statistician/gambler? You’re tempted to consider bigger and riskier bets, and you ask difficult questions about what…
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Open space acquisition in Colorado Springs: Memories of the early days | Cronin and Loevy
It was good news last April when the voters of Colorado Springs renewed the TOPS (Trails, Open Space and Parks) sales tax. For only one cent out of every $10 spent, $11,000,000 per year is raised to buy additional lands for open space and parks in our city. It was not always that way. Almost…