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October 21, 2009
Uh-oh. According to a report in The Futurist Magazine, from 1982 to 2007, reading declined by nearly 20 percent for the total U.S. population and 30 percent for young adults aged 18-24. Presently, a huge percentage of the population – some 40…
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October 14, 2009
The headline should read: “400,000 of U.S. aren’t reading this.” That’s the true story of the latest newspaper cataclysm as USA Today is about to report a loss of 398,000 readers in just one year.
It’s only the latest bad news headline for an…
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October 14, 2009
In our weird new world, where hope and wishful thinking are the same as accomplishment in the confused minds of many – obviously including the Nobel Prize folks – it’s worth recognizing real accomplishment. For example, comedian Al Franken is…
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October 7, 2009
Turn on any network last week and you saw famous people making excuses. It didn’t matter if it was Hollywood morons defending a rapist, David Letterman pretending he was a victim for treating his staff like a harem, or Barack Obama denying…
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October 7, 2009
The president’s a real comedian. I’m not referring to the performance on Letterman as much as I am at the G20 Summit, where, humorously, he spoke of his determination to prevent and prohibit the “reckless risk-taking” that he asserts brought about…
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September 30, 2009
Somewhere in our office are old bumper stickers proclaiming: “Proud Member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.” They are relics of another time, when Bill Clinton was president, his wife Hillary had shown her political acumen doing health care…
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September 30, 2009
Gee, wasn’t it Obama who swore to end the influence of lobbyists in government?
So we should believe that Al Gore is not a big, fat lobbyist. It is pure coincidence that the start-up electric car company Gore is invested in and backing got a $529-…
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September 23, 2009
Nar-cis-sism – noun
1. inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity
- Dictionary.com
In mythology, Narcissus was the guy who fell in love with his own reflection.
In 2009, he’s the president of the United States.…
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September 23, 2009
I’m in the advertising business, so it’s not all that easy to show me a sales pitch I’m shamed by. But I found one over the weekend, while I was wandering around in a middle-class shopping mall in Jacksonville, Florida. In front of a store, a huge…
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September 16, 2009
Here’s a number you’re not likely to hear from the nightly news: According to the CNW Marketing Research Automotive Consumer Spending…
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