What Mayor Bloomberg Should Control
Since His Honor manipulated the law to get a historically illegal third term, and is clearly on his way to proclaiming himself Ming the Merciless and renaming Manhattan "Mongo," and Flash Gordon is nowhere to be seen, perhaps with his
Dumb, Even for Facebook
Stupid platitude of the day on Facebook: "A woman's highest calling is to lead a man to his soul so as to unite him with Source. A man's highest calling is to protect woman so she is free to walk the
In Case You Were Wondering What I Was Thinking
• The position of vice president of the US is notorious for being almost irrelevant short of the death of a President, yet the media focus on it as if that candidate will decide the election. • About 99 percent of
More Olympic Lessons
• Jamaica has a population of under three million, and swept the 200 meter dash. The only other country to ever do that is the US, with a population of over 300 million. Don't be afraid of large numbers. • The
Olympic Trials
• Ryan Seacrest is beyond being a fifth wheel at the Olympics. He's in the pool and out of his depth, instead of interviewing vacant rock stars he's talking to people who train diligently with great discipline. He's less important
You Can’t Make This Up
• Some guy joins me on Linkedin with this opening: "I've never heard of you, but someone introduced me to your work, and your thinking is very similar to mine." Here's a guy who knows how to ingratiate himself! But,
In Case You Were Wondering What I Was Thinking….
• The saddest people I see are the guys out early in the morning at the beach with a metal detector and headphones, searching for lost items. • If you have to resort to calling people names instead of arguing the
In Case You Were Wondering What I Was Thinking
• It's not crises that wear most people out—there's often an adrenaline rush of performance—but rather the hum-drum, day-to-day living in a boring, non-challenging existence that crushes them. • A common currency without a common, central government is not going to
Casting the First Stone
The CEO of Yahoo was found to have claimed a degree he didn't have from many years ago. The press ignites, and the thumbs go down in the Roman arena. He's "killed." The CEO of JPMorgan manages to lose $2 billion
Antiquated Axioms
We often justify our action or inaction based on highly questionable axioms: Beauty is only skin deep. But that seems more than deep enough for most, since virtually everyone in the media is good looking; we spend billions on hair dyes,