Yeah, I know; yet another GOP presidential debate. But here’s the thing. This one was different. This one was moderated by my brethren at Fox Business and the Wall Street Journal. The moderators focused solely on business and damn, they were good. They were so good that I somehow managed[…] Read On
Monthly Archives: November 2015
Are You a Big Fat Liar? Tell the Truth, Now
While making the ritual triple-shot cappuccinos Sunday morning, I caught a story on TV about what really happened the night John Lennon was murdered 35 years ago. For all these years, Dr. Stephan Lynn – then head of emergency medicine at New York’s Roosevelt Hospital – claims to have been[…] Read On
The Ends Don’t Justify the Means
My concern with the hype surrounding entrepreneurship and leadership, not to mention the extreme dilution of those auspicious terms, is a topic I’ve touched on many times but never really articulated the way I’m seeing it this morning. Let’s see if I can do it justice. Here’s the thing. I have[…] Read On
Take Life as It Comes … Aging and All
Those who say that age is a state of mind are young, delusional, or smoking something. Either that or they’ve been roped in by a ludicrous stereotype of how people of a certain age are supposed to act, which of course is nonsense. In any case, there’s an epidemic of magical thinking[…] Read On
The Idiocracy Effect: Is Civilization Devolving?
Searching for a scary movie to watch on Halloween, we came across Idiocracy, a sci-fi satire about the world’s dystopian future. Not a horror film, but its prophetic depiction of the dumbed-down society we’re rapidly becoming is terrifying, nonetheless. Written and directed by Mike Judge of Beavis and Butthead and Silicon[…] Read On