Truth: The Rarest of Commodities
Accountability is something you only here about in fairy tales.
Telling the truth is something you do only after you’ve been subpoenaed (…and maybe only after records are revealed by opposing counsel).
Nobody is perfect. I would never ask for perfection —it’s too boring and unrealistic anyhow. Where is a well-known successful leader with a good example? Mistakes, of course, are made. It’s what those people do with their mistakes that should be...
That Dog’s Got Personality
Many scientists like to believe
that animals act on instinct,
genetics, and survival alone.
They avoid any discussion
about animals having personalities
or capabilities for complex emotions
and disregard those who believe
otherwise (such as me).
Attributing human characteristics
and behaviors to animals
is called anthropomorphism.
I am guilty of this scientific ‘blasphemy’.
I can assure you that my dog,
good old Blue,
(who is neither old, nor blue)
is perfectly capable of
all...
All Greek To Me
Well I like to drift in and out on things. Too much excitement stresses me out, so I have promised myself to keep a watchful eye on what I read during this election season.
Anyway couple of things have struck me of late. How about that NY Times article on how clever Apple is at avoiding taxes in this country. You have to admire their ingenuity, and I doubt the news will keep anyone from buying an iPad. Hey we can all pay just a little more in tax and try a little more personal...
Thrillist Launches Atlantic City ‘Pop Up’ Edition
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Here’s one sign that Atlantic City may finally realize Paul Sevigny and Governor Chris Christie’s shared vision of an ironic-seedy Hamptons for cash dispensing hipsters: Men’s lifestyle newsletter Thrillist is launching an Atlantic City edition. It will be published once a week from May 17 until Labor Day, said parent company Thrillist Media Group, which is calling the seasonal food and entertainment curation—what else?—“a...
Failing Sideways
Jamie Dimon
It may have been a great week for mothers (unless you forgot the card and flowers, and skipped out on brunch), but not so much for CEOs. Between Jamie Dimon’s $2 billion trading loss right before JPMorgan’s annual shareholder meeting and Yahoo’s chief executive Scott Thompson’s not-so-voluntary resignation over allegations that he falsified part of his resume, it’s an uncomfortable time for the twice-bitten industries. We are especially...
International Communications Broadcast Systems – Portland, OR – By Constance Clarendon – Following recent indictments in the UK, reports have arisen that Kathryn Murdoch, wife of James Murdoch punched Cheryl Carter, former assistant to Newscorp exec Rebekah Brooks, directly in the nose at a polo match sponsored by the local Arlington Club. The match, and the punch, took place over two years ago. Yet, Ms. Carter’s asides to UK investigators reveal a lingering resentment.
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Spider-Man won’t kill N. Korean soldiers or waterboard a man to save 6b. Loser.
Marvel has officially killed Spider-Man. They did it before with his deal, for all intents and purposes, with the devil. And now they’ve done it again by turning him into such a pacifist clown that his lack of moral clarity actually makes him evil. Correction: Writer Dan Slott’s pacifist-clown take on Spider-Man has made him evil.
Case-in-point would be Marvel’s current storyline, ‘Ends of the Earth.” In it, Doctor Octopus has come up with a plan...
In Kubla Khan Barack Obama loved me
I just got back from a trip to China. I go there sometimes, because there are places where the opium dens of old still welcome road-weary Westerners like myself. I follow the trails of men (better men than I) like Samuel Taylor Coleridge and romantic poets in search of kindred spirits. Along the way I wind up in the deep, dark places on the other side of the globe where I can entertain the bizarre side of me that’s just a little too extreme for home, with the little town adjacent to a...
New York: Social media also-ran
Facebook Inc. will price its initial public offering at the close of the market Thursday in what promises to be a frenzy of buying. The Facebook IPO also demonstrates the enormous ripples of wealth that tech provides in San Francisco and offers an opportunity to compare tech’s role in the Bay Area and in the Big Apple. I will do that in an expanded column in next week’s issue of Crain’s New York Business, which goes live online Sunday.
Here’s a tidbit from the...
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