The Idle American Acasual statement made by my Uncle Mort at his 107th birthday party recently may go a long way in explaining why he continues his relentless pursuit of get-rich-quick inventions. He said he suffered a monumental financial blow – a borderline “gut punch” – from Wall Street. Mort rues the long-ago day he put all of his available cash in what he described as “Sweet Chariot Stocks.” Huh? “Hours after I bought ‘em,” he claimed, “they swung low.” He’s been hearing quite a bit about a Russia-based company that has introduced a computer download called “FaceApp.” It uses artificial intelligence in processing ...