Have you ever read the comments on popular news sites like WSJ or HuffPost? If I had to come up with three words to describe the average comment, the first to come to mind would be nonsensical, hurtful, and ignorant. It makes me sad: -It saddens me that people cannot express themselves. I’ll forgive typos—heavens [...]
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With all the attention being placed on the Gulf, I wanted to make sure today that we don’t drop the ball when it comes to our safety and well being in other areas of our life. Like the rest of our food supply. Did you know that genetically modified foods allow more crop to be [...]
It’s the NCAA championship game. You’re down by 1. You have the last shot. From half court. It’s off the backboard… …off the rim… …no good! You’ve just lost the championship by a single point! Congrats to Duke for their victory on Monday. And congrats to Butler, too. You went for it. You held it [...]
In the ’60′s, American muscle cars were powerful, fast, and “sloppy” enough that they’d run well even when tinkered with. By contrast, many of today’s cars are so closely engineered, with so many functions made interdependent because of the use of shared components, that a radio malfunction in my old man’s Mercedes literally crippled his [...]
Consider this: CNN was running “news” about who Tiger has been with… that was originally “broken” by the National Enquirer. Here’s one of CNN’s pieces. I look at this as a bad answer to that eternal question: do I give the people what they want… or what they need? Since Thanksgiving, the media has been [...]
“Declining revenues” isn’t a problem, it’s feedback
Today is the seventh anniversary of 9/11. Below is reprint of the post I made one year ago today. Despite (or maybe because of?) another election cycle, nothing’s changed. I marveled, as I stood in a monster security line at O’Hare recently, that anyone is under the illusion that the TSA makes us safer. Reality [...]
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