The economy!? Ugh, it’s so damn confusing. Sure, there was that infamous clue to George W. Bush -- “It’s the economy, stupid” – from Clinton presidential campaign strategist James Carville. But truthfully, for even the most brilliant professionals in the…
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A driver deliberately races down the empty lane to the closed toll booth, passing the terminally stalled lines of traffic. The action creates confusion, more congestion, then total frustration. Because, rather than rejecting this bad behavior, one naïve fool allows…
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“Mr. Smith,” you’re needed on the set, immediately. The demand for sincere, artful communication in Washington hasn’t been this desperate since 1939 when Jimmy Stewart dramatized the power of well-chosen words in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” For months now,…
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We have become defensive walkers, out of necessity. Obliged to constantly dodge the misfits who are incapable of walking straight and working a mobile phone at the same. This rude, oblivious behavior is only the tip of the iceberg when…
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To Jenny McCarthy, Gwyneth Paltrow and all celebrities who make baseless claims to promote health, beauty and anti-aging nostrums, understand this: “You are entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts.” Although late-Senator Daniel Moynihan’s admonition was…
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Every new year we make resolutions; and have a chance to make things right. So for this upcoming year let’s all agree to save valuable time by saying “twenty-seventeen.” Instead of the cumbersome “two-thousand-seventeen,” that is. If the simplicity and…
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Like all epiphanies, the idea to learn to play the harmonica came to me while stuck in L.A. freeway traffic. What an incredible waste of time, I would think as traffic inched along. I should be doing something productive, something…
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The damage is done. By the automobile. The most destructive, harmful, wasteful, aggravating invention in history. We took a major wrong turn when we committed to travel primarily by single-occupancy vehicles rather than mass transit. Instead of improving quality of…
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From the moment we learn to talk, we’re asking questions. Why is the sky blue? What’s that smell? Are we there yet? And then, within the span of only about a decade, we’ve satisfied our youthful curiosity and now know…
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For those of us who avoid small talk like the plague, new research offers good cause to at least try opening our minds and mouths. Recent studies highlighted in “Science of Us,” the online compiler of such things, suggests that…
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