Nobody actually came up with the idea of a 24/7 news cycle. It just sort of happened. But if it were possible to identify who did this to us, waterboarding would be too light a punishment. Maybe a week locked up with Rosie O’Donnell and Bill Maher. That works. And[…] Read On
When oppressed groups band together to stand up for their civil rights, that’s a good thing. When political parties, organizers, activists and anarchists exploit those groups by stoking the flames of discord for their own purposes, that’s called identity politics. And that’s a bad thing. A really bad thing. The[…] Read On
Kim Jong-un is a real problem. To truly appreciate the North Korean threat, you have to understand the geography of the Korean peninsula. Years ago, I had a meeting fall apart at the last minute on the back end of a business trip to Seoul. I’d been to South Korea[…] Read On
The software engineer who penned a 10-page manifesto calling Google’s diversity and inclusion policies “discriminatory,” “unfair” and “divisive” and blasting the Silicon Valley company’s “politically correct,” “left-leaning” culture as unaccepting of anyone outside its “ideological echo chamber” has been fired. So much for the search giant’s supposedly open culture that[…] Read On
The idea behind the Trump movement was that the nation needed a successful business leader to fix Washington’s perpetual gridlock. That only a political outsider could come in and drain the swamp. At least, that was the theory. In some ways, the president is behaving more like a back-stabbing politician[…] Read On
An old friend came to visit this weekend. After dinner and probably way too much wine – including a remarkable 1997 Cardinale cabernet blend, I should add – we got into a heated debate about politics, the media and all that stuff. My friend declared that the mainstream media is[…] Read On
Imagine a caveman getting down on his knees on the shore of a serene lake for an afternoon drink of water, only to catch his reflection and become the first human to actually behold his own face. Being a marginally intelligent creature, our prehistoric ancestor eventually realizes that the image[…] Read On