Not So Sirius Radio: DASM
The satellite radio stopped abruptly in our new SUV. I took the time to call Sirius and, after the moronic automated voices trying to get rid of me, I reached a "listener care representative." She told me, astoundingly, that my
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 6/23/14
This week's focus point: Let me understand the World Cup. It unites people in a nationalistic xenophobia. Officials can make calls which reverse momentum, reward the devious, and penalize honest effort. Even the best players posture and pretend, trying to
Poverty of Imagination
A woman I don't know wrote me as part of a mass email this morning asking me to promote her new book to my entire mailing list. I was to include some "offer" so that someone buying the book would
My Traditional Father’s Day Lobster
This year, seven pounds. And, yes, I finished everything.
Hatred and Racism Over Monday Morning Memo®!
I receive a lot of email thanking me for Monday Morning Memo® (latest one is below) or offering other views. I try to respond to them all. The subscription list keeps growing, now past 15,000. Yet, every so often, perhaps twice
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 6/16/14
This week's focus point: After World War I, the Sykes-Picot Agreement divided the middle east according to British and French interests (with Russia agreeing). The geopolitical lines drawn were arbitrary and capricious, ignoring tribes and historic settlement (and even common