This morning I received an e-mail from one of my unnamed, and totally unreliable, sources. Sat 4/29/2017 1:06 AM TO: Dr. ESPFROM: Unnamed and Unreliable SourceSUBJECT: WHCA Speech Attached is a copy of the draft remarks Donald Trump planned to give if he had attended last night’s dinner. Although I cannot divulge how I procured … Read more
The 1979 movie All That Jazz includes one of my all-time favorite musical performances. After protagonist Joe Gideon (played by Roy Scheider) learns his latest movie was not well received by critics, his daughter (Erzsebet Foldi) and girlfriend (Ann Reinking) cheer him up with a song and dance rendition of Peter Allen and Carole Bayer Sager’s … Read more
Heaven forbid, I think I’ve been infected by Trump syndrome. Before I caught myself, I started this post as follows. The acorn doesn’t fall far from the oak. You know, not everyone knows that. It’s not as easy as it looks. But after a 10 minute conversation with Chinese president Xi Jinping, I now … Read more
Despite economic and social theories which suggest individuals and civilizations will, in most instances, behave in their own self-interest, it seems there are more and more cases where the opposite is true. This human condition was most famously articulated by Pogo creator Walt Kelly (1913-1973) on a poster he created to promote the first … Read more
Today’s lesson in critical thinking is about the value of information regardless of whether it seems relevant at the time. I learned this from Andy Stefanovich, the self-proclaimed chief curator at Prophet Management Consulting in Richmond, Virginia. Andy always carries a supply of blank index cards on which he obsessively captures random observations and … Read more