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"Life's most persistent and most urgent question is ... 'What are we doing for others?'" - Martin Luther King Jr.
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Pettiness

It causes such bad feelings and wounds that never heal. I’ve always wondered why it’s so[more]

Is Google God?

Well, Larry Page and Sergey Brin did write the company’ slogan: “Don’t be evil,[more]

Vitiation and Bad Ideas

Here is the definition and the visual (VISH-ee–aay-shun) and the audible pronunciations: To[more]

Howdy Doody Time

Robert Schmidt was born with little or no fanfare on November 27, 1917, the son of a coal miner in u[more]

The Anatomy of the U.S. Dollar

The Front The one dollar bill you’re looking at first came off the presses in 1957 in its pres[more]

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

1. How many steps does the guard take during his walk across the tomb of the Unknowns and why? 21 st[more]

The one percent who seem so strong are actually weak. And worried, too. They should be. If the Union[more]

Mitigation That’s when we could have helped ahead. That’s when we could have gotten out.[more]

CONTENTS: Introductory Thoughts | Re-Culturing | The Industrial Model | The Artisanal Model | 
The[more]

It comes down to knowing the difference Between the truth and the lies It takes time to figure all o[more]

Children of the Web

They seem to be alive, but it’s more complicated than that. They seem to be human, but these are n[more]

  They move together through time as though It were all eternal. There was no isle They ever wa[more]

The sun was oppressive and hot. The air was heavy Like a burden we had put down to rest. We were sit[more]

It does nothing for me. These five words have destroyed more advertising careers than all the late n[more]

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

              He is not an ordinary American poet, but rather, he[more]

Trailer Park Kid

Have you ever disparaged a person poorer than you? Have you ever set the example to your children th[more]

A Client in Search of an Advertising Agency

Some thoughts for a client in search of a new agency (and for companies that already have one)…[more]

The Ten Commandments of Leadership

Your example is everything. Remember what your real job is: to ensure that everyone else is happy in[more]

No! No! Delete That!

Computers have so many things that we just don’t have. Think about it. First and foremost is t[more]

Kill Zone

The hot air blasted over their oily hands, their fingers on the triggers. The brackish water sprayed[more]

Teaching My Daughter to Drive

Driving along, weaving to and fro gently down the street as she got the feel of the wheel, the car s[more]

On Fame and Power

GEORGE EDWARD CARRUTH August 29, 1929 – April 30, 1999 In the great scheme of things, he was not a[more]