In contrast with today’s enormous and ever-growing sociopolitical divide, I seem to have a somewhat different, some might even say moderate (yikes!), take on recent world events than your average everyday American. There must be something seriously wrong with me. I couldn’t care less about the Royals, especially Prince Henry[…] Read On
Monthly Archives: January 2020
Why Ousted Boeing CEO Deserves $80 Million Payout
You haven’t lived until you’ve spent two weeks locked in a conference room with 20 lawyers and analysts wordsmithing an SEC S-1 prospectus line by line in preparation for an IPO. Colonoscopies, jury duty and listening to Alyssa Milano are fun by comparison. Wait, it gets better. After you submit[…] Read On
The News Sucks
A lot of people I meet say they’re news junkies. It makes me wonder if maybe they were dropped on their heads when they were little. Obviously that’s unlikely; it hardly seems plausible for so many parents and caretakers to have slippery hands and whatnot. But still. I hate[…] Read On
Carlos Ghosn’s Great Escape
Face it, there’s no escaping the realization that you were completely full of shit when you said, “I’m ready to get back to work.” Maybe you were ready to get back home or to have the house back to yourself. That I believe. But back to work? I don’t think[…] Read On
Bizarro World 2020: Victimize the Guilty and Vilify the Innocent
I’m beginning to wonder if I went to bed in 2019 and woke up in a bizarro 2020 world where everything is reversed. I’m not sure if it’s utopian thinking, fake news, poor judgement, guilt or grossly misplaced compassion that makes some people put the lives of terrorists and the[…] Read On
The Worst CEOs of 2019
Every year, Santa and I get together at his place, break out the nog, boogey down to some righteous classic rock and talk about corporate America’s naughtiest CEOs. Sure they make a lot of dough but the fat man can’t resist filling their Christmas stockings with big black lumps of[…] Read On