Put a fork in me, I’m done. I just can’t keep up this façade any longer. After a lifetime of treating everyone the same – regardless of their gender, race, age, politics, disabilities, status, or sexual orientation – I’m coming clean. Deep inside, I’m a raging misogynist, racist, and every[…] Read On
Why aspirations and not resolutions? I don’t want to let anyone down by setting high expectations. The way I figure, if I set the bar low enough, maybe I’ll at least have a shot at some of this stuff. Come on, quit laughing; it was worth a try. Anyway, here[…] Read On
The way federal prosecutors, the FBI, and the SEC clamored to get on camera when Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli was indicted on fraud charges, you’d think they were bringing down a Bernie Madoff or Al Capone. Nope. It was just a little hedge fund fraud over a few million[…] Read On
About a dozen years ago I started a management consulting firm and said sayonara to the corporate grind … and my Gillette razor. What can I say; I’ve always hated shaving, so I traded in the clean-cut exec look for the real me: grubby. Not everyone appreciated the new look.[…] Read On
It’s been 38 years since the original Star Wars movie was released in theaters, so I’m fully aware that many of you probably weren’t even born yet. As for me, I was 20 years old and enrolled at the State University of New York at Stony Brook on the north[…] Read On
Entitlements are two-thirds of the federal budget. Entitlement spending has grown 100-fold over the past 50 years. Half of all American households now rely on government handouts. When we hear statistics like that, most of us shake our heads and mutter some sort of expletive. That’s because nobody thinks they’re[…] Read On
We’ve all pulled off and been victims of pranks. In college, we literally turned a guy’s entire room upside down. Everything was as he left it … if up was down and vice versa. Bed, chairs, desk, dresser – everything on and in them was flipped around – even the[…] Read On