Just when you thought this wave of “incivility” is just a fringe movement — that we can all get on with our lives and live in peace — the lunatics have made another go at running the asylum. This time it’s the media and academics making the case that the[…] Read On
When a publication – any publication from anywhere in the world – even hints at something controversial out of President Trump’s mouth, it becomes headline news from every media outlet on Earth. Oftentimes it’s fake headline news. Yesterday, Germany’s WirtschaftsWoche ran the following story, “Trump Wants to Block Daimler From the[…] Read On
As long as there have been insiders, insiders have been leaking to the press. It’s as common in business as it is in politics. Maybe more so. The thing is, people don’t usually leak for the reasons you might think. I’d lay odds that most people think insiders leak because[…] Read On
About a third of S&P 500 companies are family-owned. Wonder what CBS’s Les Moonves thinks about that? The CEO has been fighting the Redstone family’s National Amusements Inc., which controls CBS and Viacom, for ages. The latest boardroom drama would rival any show CBS is pitching for next fall. Shari[…] Read On
The court of public opinion is no place to meter out justice. That’s why we have a criminal justice system with the blindfolded lady and the scales. Without it you’re left with groupthink and confirmation bias which ultimately deteriorates to mob rule. Who would have thought that an enlightened society[…] Read On
We’ve all said things we regret, things we’d take back in a heartbeat if we could. Some of us have even been dumb enough to document our hateful rants in writing. The funny thing is, the internet never forgets, and those mistakes will inevitably come back to haunt us. You[…] Read On
Now that senseless attacks like what happened in Toronto and Nashville are covered 24×7 by the click-happy media that never lets a good tragedy go to waste, the Twitterati and Instagramites have gotten into the habit of “sending love and healing thoughts” to people they’ve never even met. Sometimes entire[…] Read On