Making Super Tuesday Actually Super

A Proposal to Make a Most Important Day and the Rest of the Election Cycle Work Before starting this conversation, let’s be clear about something. The national parties do NOT organize primaries (date, open or closed, primary or caucus). States do their own thing, yielding various kinds of chaos …

Quotes & Quips – Don’t You Wish YOU had Thought of These? Me, too

Humorous or insightful thoughts to help start the New Year As regular readers know, about once a quarter or so, this site provides a short list of quotes that I find really good, worthy of sharing. Some are profound, some are funny, some are both. Herewith, the latest offerings to …

Is it Time to Turn a Life Page?

Knowing When It is Time for a Change is an Important Life Skill I enjoyed an opportunity a few days ago that I see more often late. It might be a coincidence of the people around me, or it might be a trend more generally. Either way, it’s a …

Are We Actually THAT Shortsighted and Selfish?

Our choices for transportation don’t say much for us American automotive firms are pretty much getting out of the car business. They are going almost exclusively to trucks and SUVs. They are leaving the automobile market to foreign companies. One cannot blame them for this – they are going where …

What Are We Reading? Tips for Finding the Good Stuff

So Much to Read, So Little Time. Sharing Our Favorites and Shortcuts. BEFORE WE BEGIN: (1) This is the first in our new, two posts per week format. I hope you find this a good fit. (2) Many of you took up the email to share Agents of Reason with …

New Year’s Resolutions – Two Simple Steps to Make Them Work

Making Resolutions? – Make Them Work and Make Them Fun. Tis the time of year people get fixated on resolutions for the new year. We all know how this usually goes. Big plans. High goals. Failure. It need not be so. I mentioned in an earlier blog that I …