Intentionally Vicarious: Having more fun than anyone else you know!

Every single one of us can tell multiple stories about a truly awful customer service experience. How can bad customer service be so rampant? It's literally a $350 Billion industry. With that much money up for grabs, how can this be?

"...true learning continues until it is put into action." Book learning is fine. So are degrees and certifications. But... ACTION reigns supreme!

Former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Tip O'Neill , a Democrat from Massachusetts, is most closely associated with the phrase, "All politics is local." Today??? His famous assertion is sadly - scarily - totally wrong.

Don't just take my word for it. Listen to J. Paul Getty too!!!

Big Brother isn't watching us. Big Brother is expending tons of effort to keep us from watching him !

Who's paying attention to the gene pool?

Polititainment, Recreational Outrage and Competitive Victimhood, are not only clever, insightful and intriguing all on their own, but are also all tightly linked together. Be aware that they exist and us this knowledge to beef up the sensitivity of your bullhshit detector!

Booze and coffee each have distinct purposes. Apply them wisely!

An old friend and colleague of mine e-mailed me with an intriguing observation. "100 years ago, if you did not have common sense and situational awareness, you would starve or be eaten by a bear. Nature was self correcting. Today, modern society protects people with no common sense or situational awareness. They are growing in numbers and finding careers in politics." IV's thoughts from this bit o...

Hard to tell... Probably mostly stupidity.

For all practical purposes, the 10th Amendment - which limits the power of the federal government - does not exist . What should we do about it? Convene a Convention of States maybe?

First it'll make you feel good... then humble...

Centralization of political power is an eerily potent and scary phenomenon. There's a tipping point somewhere that marks severe trouble. The poster child for centralization run amok, of course, is the former Soviet Union.

The great conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein really got it right when he said... "To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time."

Reality Leakage:  Daniel Patrick Moynihan was a Democrat who held significant positions in the Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford administrations. He also r epresented New York in the U.S. Senate from 1977 to 2001. In 1994, the Senate debated Bill Clinton's "Goals 2000" legislation. Among other things, it promised - not suggested working toward or trying, but promised - that America's high school gr...

Who'da thunk it? NASA egg-heads with a sense of humor!

Common Sense is common. It's Common - Typical - Average - Run-Of-The-Mill. By definition, if something - anything - is common, virtually everybody has it. There is nothing the least bit special about it.

Is it the smartest that survive? The strongest? Nope. Think again...

I had the good fortune to catch up with a colleague and friend from the past. Paul Nicholson is a Zoho ONE Authorised Training Partner among a host of other things... Paul & I got connected in a bit of an unusual way - It was about 10 years ago and we were both doing consulting work for a company in Bermuda - So the guy from Doncaster in the UK meets the guy from Atlanta, GA in Hamilton Bermuda!

It's no secret that I claim to be having more fun than anyone else I know. Yes, quasi-tongue-in-cheek, but the fact is, it genuinely is an important life-goal for me, and I take having fun seriously.

If you're going to cook, cook like W.C. Fields.

No, I don't like golf all that much. THAT said, each year for the last 28 years, I've gotten together with three buddies for a golf trip. Maybe it's not about golf...

Make Congress suffer the consequences of their own sadly childish behavior.

Of the 56 cities in the U.S. with more than 250,000 residents, only 11 are conservative compared to 45 that are liberal. Why is that???

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"