Observations

You know, six years ago we went through the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Millions of jobs were lost. The auto industry was on the brink of collapse. The financial system had frozen up. And because of the resilience and the determination of the American people, we've begun to fight our way back.

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”

I was chosen for jury duty on September 10.   The rest  of the prospective jurors were allowed to leave and resume their lives and...

Running another driver into construction workers and equipment because they would have gotten in front of you was one thing but blaming someone for damage to your pickup they didn't do, only an asshole would do that.

On my last full day in D.C. I had to catch the National Museum of Art. Again. This is part two of my last full day. So join me in cramming a full-day activity into a few hours. Feel the panicked rush to try to take it all in one last time. Did I mention there's nudity?

A late update from the 2011 Irish Presidential Elections.

In yesterday's New York Times, Charles Blow, one of my favourite opinion writers, wrote a brilliant and poignantly evocative exhortation to politicians of all...

"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left." - Einstein My morning yesterday was...

A Brief History of Sales - Understanding the past... If you already have a business, it's time to gather all the information you can before you start.

Happy Mothers Day!