Hilzoy finds that the Men Of The Mind are a puzzling lot… The unemployment numbers are dreadful. But for once, there’s a glimmer of hope on the horizon: conservatives are going Galt. "While they take to the streets politically, untold numbers of America’s wealth producers are g...

I recently attended a network event as a panelist on the subject of social media. Before the panel discussion part of the evening began, a group of about one hundred attendees who work in PR and/or own a business, were mixing and mingling in the pre-show drinks and nibbles party. I was standing in a...

Commentary from John Stamos on This Post regarding the new hippies.  Why yes John, I have read Doctor Seuss.  Let it be said that Seuss could get his point across in a few pages of a children’s book.  Rand on the other hand…  Well to paraphrase Mark Twain’s comm...

You know…the mainstream news media really needs to start paying more attention to this crap.  Just letting it fester isn’t a plan…   It’s beyond irresponsible that major U.S. corporations are sponsoring this crap, let alone pushing it out onto the airwaves.  ...

After two exceptional books as 'Tipping Point' and 'Blink' were, it is quite a challenge to write the next bestseller. I fear Malcolm's 'Outliers' didn't make it. It will be a bestseller, but not of this unique quality the one's before had. At page 115 the book abruptly stops to be needful - but the...

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. -Ansel Adams I am a graphic artist.  That is to say, I express via imagery.  I don’t perform on stage.  I don’t write.  I am not a composer of music.  I paint.  I draw.  But ...

Some time ago the Bay Shore Gay and Lesbian Center for Youths was vandalized.  Its front door was broken and its van had its tires slashed, its windows busted out, and its sideview mirrors mangled. Today I read that arrests in the case have been made and…surprise, surprise, the police hav...

Last week I wrote about both the need and approaches for management to communicate bad news openly and honestly. Wes Ball commented on the need to keep employees involved, which is what I was planning to talk about today. The language of employee involvement keeps changing, so if you want to do more...

Ask yourself, “Do I surround myself with positive people?”Ever have a “friend” who tells you you’re thin as a rail and should eat?  But, you know, they’re just being kind-you have 20 more pounds to lose and you don’ look anorexic now!Or a “friend̶...

Over at Pam’s House Blend, the Homophobia Is A Made-Up Word argument rises grimly once more from its grave, and starts eating brains… Words have meaning. Henceforth, I shall make a reasonable effort to eliminate "homophobia" and "homophobic" from my vocabulary. The word &...