Street Talk: In the day when public discourse was conducted in a real-world environment, one could expect a punch in the nose if he resorted to the kind of trash talk we see as a matter of course online.

Street Talk: As long as there’s the potential for big money, somebody somewhere is willing to take the risk, and sheer numbers mean the odds are in their favor. 

Street Talk: Not only is artificial intelligence producing credible written works these days, by some estimates, those bots may be responsible for HALF the content you find on the web.  

Street Talk: Maybe someone will write a folk song about Maine’s lost ladies. Someone should. 

Street Talk: It’s downright strange to me that a person sitting next to me, drinking legally at a bar, could have been born the year I started writing Street Talk.