There are moments in time when I want to make like old Willie Shakespeare and shout something like “Friends, Romans and Countrymen: lend me your ears so that I might give you a double dose of common sense.” Many people I know posted something that looked exactly like this or quite similar: In response to… Continue reading The Great Facebook Hoax of 2012 And Why It Shouldn’t Matter
Year: 2012
What I Learned From Richard Nixon’s Speechwriter
Dear Ben Stein, I would guess the first time you meet some one you probably don’t introduce yourself as a former speech writer for President Nixon. That has little if anything to do with politics and everything to do with what you have accomplished during the almost forty years since you worked as part of… Continue reading What I Learned From Richard Nixon’s Speechwriter
Some Things Are Best Left Unsaid
The boy in the photo never imagined a time when he would have to worry about being cautious about what he said because he had no reason to fear that one day prospective employers would sift and sort through his social profiles to try and figure out what kind of person he was. He didn’t… Continue reading Some Things Are Best Left Unsaid
Twenty-Five Years Later
Twenty-five years ago I learned that sometimes life doesn’t work out the way you think it will and that sometimes change can be a very good thing. I could tell you a million stories about where I thought I would be and what I thought would happen but that would be fiction and this post… Continue reading Twenty-Five Years Later
