Thomas Kies

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Looking For Love In All the Swipe Places

2022 Articles, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Thomas Kies

Did you know that 25% of married couples met each other online? Or that 10% of affairs also start online? Or that 40% of online affairs turn into in-person affairs? That’s according to Technology Review and Trustify in their 2017 posts. Did you know, according to a New York Times piece in 2018, that women’s online desirability peaks at age eighteen or that men are most desirable online at age fifty? Go figure.

The Sad Decline of Newspapers

2021 Articles, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Thomas Kies

“If you try and make this job about the money, you’ll be nothing but miserable, ‘cause we don’t get the money—never have, never will.” —That’s a quote from the 1994 Ron Howard film The Paper.
That was when newspapers were still vibrant purveyors of journalism. Part of the wit and wisdom of the movie is Robert Duvall’s smart-ass observations. At one point in the movie, he explains how a reporter can move through the rarified air of the elite, famous, powerful, and rich, but isn’t one of them.