The first thing I did when I woke this morning was check weather online in the cities where my sons attend college. Then I checked the news online, to see what damage Hurricane Sandy’s impacts continued to wreak through the night. I opened a window to access Facebook and read any messages from my boys. […]
Big Head – See Red?
There’s confidence and over-confidence. It’s a fine line to walk.
Watching Debates, the Body Reveal, Rules of the Game
How body language reveals what words may not.
47 Percent
You’d have to be living under a rock if you didn’t recognize 47 percent as the new Number-du-Jour. Yesterday’s media frenzy over the secretly taped Mitt Romney video continues to fuel discussion over the presidential election, the GOP, not to mention the meaning of the 47 percent figure which Mr. Romney referenced while speaking to […]
Factoids
Fact versus fiction, and… where is truth in the mix?
Listing
When lists turn from tools into torture devices…
Big Ideas
Who doesn’t want to be a visionary? Who doesn’t want to be known for big ideas – the sort that inspire a community, or better yet, a nation? In today’s Sunday New York Times, an editorial by Thomas L. Friedman, “It’s Still Halftime in America,” speaks to the need for long-term vision in the context […]
Web Crazy
Some say social media is addictive. A dopamine spike here, a dopamine spike there…
Heralded Historian Talks Guillotine and Bastille Day
14 July 2012, Just In. Reports are coming in of an unplanned encounter between vacationing journalist, Lola La Chaussure, and heralded historian, Docteur Louis LeBrun of La Sorbonne. The impromptu meeting allegedly took place just hours ago in the Café de Paris on Las Olas Boulevard, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, wherein the two struck up […]
Food, Scandalous Food?
In a discussion that began a few days ago with what you might consider a “You Are What You Eat” theme, as the conversation continues, it becomes more grim. La Bergère Basque offers a glimpse into her way of life in this comment, pertaining to the local food supply in her village in the Aquitaine […]