Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo®

  I've been emphasizing (and wrote a book about the problem, Threescore and More) that ageism is one of the two remaining biases in the country that have very little opposition (the other being bias against people who are obese). There

  There was once an age of "insult comics," like Fat Jack Leonard and Don Rickles. Some people thought of Joan Rivers like this, but she was also hysterically self-disparaging. Rodney Dangerfield never got much respect. The Mormon Church didn't sue the

  Did you know that over the last 20 years the proportion of world population living in extreme poverty has been halved? Or that life expectancy in the entire world is 70? That there are 2 billion children (age 0-15) in

  I'm sitting in my "studio" in the house we rent on Nantucket. It's 6:30 am (writing time for me) and I'm staring at the illusory straight line where the deep blue sea meets the cerulean sky. When we sailed the

  This past Saturday, on our 51st anniversary, my wife and I drove down to Foxwoods in Connecticut to gamble a bit, have a nice dinner, and see Jerry Seinfeld from great seats. I hadn't seen him live for 20 years.

  Some people are in a perpetual state of outrage. Their cause or agenda requires shouting and yelling and zero tolerance for any other viewpoint. But when everything is at a high volume, then nothing stands out. It all becomes merely

  I need some minor oral surgery. My dentist sent me to a periodontist who performed a difficult extraction and who would then replace it with an implant after the site was "restored" (sounds like archeology, right?). We're ready for the implant, which