Friday, July 31, 2009

Landlines, Cellphones, and the Breakdown of the Family

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Oh, no! Another over-the-top meltdown about the decline of family, morality, and American values? Not really. But I have been thinking about...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

What Does It Mean To Be "Healthy"?

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My brother-in-law, who is an emergency-room physician, used to joke that the definition of someone who's healthy is "someone who ha...
Friday, July 24, 2009

What Caused the Current Economic Crisis, Really?

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According to an excellent series that has just appeared in the online magazine Salon , it was a "vast criminal enterprise." The th...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009

What Do the Words "National Highway Traffic Safety Administration" Mean to You?

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It seems to me that "National Highway Traffic Safety Administration" should mean, an agency that investigates issues relating to s...
Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Something (Someone) to Celebrate

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Since I spend a lot of time here complaining, it's great to have an opportunity to celebrate something, or rather, someone. Yesterday I ...
Monday, July 13, 2009

Ethical Blogging Means Blogging, well, Ethically

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I've written about the ethics of blogging before , but I'm going to keep writing about it until we all get it right! Today's New...
Friday, July 10, 2009

If You Can't Trust Your Team, Why Are They Your Team?

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In a "previous life", early in my corporate career, I was a marketing analyst for a durable-goods company. One of my responsibilit...