Culpability

by Bruce Holsinger

Did you know his companies are valued at sixteen billion? How is that even possible?”

Considering the value of the Big Tech companies is over 3 trillion each, it seems quite possible.

We give them names like Siri and Alexa. We speak to them as if they share our worldview, or care about our feelings and futures.

Again she doesn’t respond. I have scored a point, a strong one. Now I turn fully toward her, three fingers raised.

Keeping score with your wife can be detrimental.

Apparently she’s teaching him to sail.” “Sail? Is that safe?”

I never thought of it as dangerous.

see it play out in the car: Izzy texts Charlie, attempting to rile him up about Alice’s frequent need for the bathroom. Charlie replies, playing along, mostly to keep his little sister snickering.

This is what girls talk to their brothers about?

I am staring at an empty bed.

I expected it to be empty. Why didn’t the narrator?

reporter,” I say. “She wanted to interview Charlie.” “We told her absolutely not,” says Julia,

When did you tell her that? You just said you didn’t know who she was.

The girls, crabby, suck lemonades through straws, waiting for the sugar to hit.

Do children drink lemonade expecting a mythical sugar-high?

There’s no way the prosecutor could ever get a conviction with that autodrive system in play.

That’s what I thought immediately. Why did it take so long to arrive at this conclusion?