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 ALL political rhetoric, from both sides, is pure bloviation and shows a blatant contempt for the intelligence of the listener.
• If you really want international harmony fostered through sports competition, hold the Olympics every year among existing facilities, so that cities don’t have to bankrupt themselves and we don’t have to wait four years for the event.
• Please don’t talk to me about stereotyping women when thousands of local television stations have look-alike, blow-dried, young women in the morning exchanging banalities on a couch with average-looking older men, reading a Tele-Promp-Ter, and talking about storms or traffic.
• I can’t fathom Howard Stern’s popularity.
• Notice that when leaders can’t solve problems, they look for (and often create) external enemies to whom they attempt to shift attention?
• There can be only a few people with greater time on their hands than those who patrol Twitter and take the time to critique others’ Tweets.
• Why is it that bed and breakfast owners run the place as if it’s for them and not guests and they don’t care if you’re happy or not? (Reminds me of my colleague and superb small business consultant, Phil Symchych in Regina, who claims that Air Canada’s motto is, “We’re not happy until you’re not happy.”)
• Here’s a news flash: You won’t create friends, influence people, or create bipartisan support when you demonize your opposition.
• When a pair of seagulls wait for you to go into the water and then moves in to steal your food every single day, you’re going to have to remind me once again exactly who occupies the top of the food chain.
• From about 1912 to 1948, the Olympics included medals for art and architecture. I wonder if the Romanian judge still was two points lower than everyone else. Did a cathedral have a higher degree of difficulty than a house extension?
• Excellent terse advice: Shut up and sing. Stop whining and play. Stop making lists and start making results.
© Alan Weiss 2012. All rights reserved.
