We are in the age of pundits and comparisons are flying around left and right bending history tinting statistics and mishandling messages. Reputable sources can get a bit lazy and with all the communication options available disseminating a misleading tidbit can happen in an instant. With the click of a button you re-post re-tweet or re-send the faulty information becoming a … [Read more...] about Misinformed?
Follow the Leaders
Great thinkers' opinions are gold literally. $11 billion was spent on self-help books in 2008 and that's just in the United States (although we are the primary consumers of self-help literature) and that doesn't include biography another method of emulation. We spend tons of time analyzing the philosophies of great leaders from the past dissecting their lives for keys to a good … [Read more...] about Follow the Leaders
With Age Comes Immaturity
The U.S. Senate often called "the world's greatest deliberative body" has fallen a long way from its idealist calling. If you haven't been following the Senate's progression to this point here's the status quo as reported recently by Time The New Yorker The Economist and numerous commentators on the hill: The Senate is broken. After its inception the U.S. Senate gained a … [Read more...] about With Age Comes Immaturity
Getting on the "Black List"
Every year 311 clandestine Hollywood executives get together to determine the future of movies. These executives publish the Black List a list of "most liked" screenplays somehow associated with the year. The unique qualification for the Black List: screenplays chosen will NOT be produced at least within the year. The term "blacklist" has a long and painful history with … [Read more...] about Getting on the "Black List"