May 29, 2018. Mark this date on your calendar. It is the day on which three totally unrelated events (there’s that synchronicity thing again) signaled the first major crack in the tribal totem pole which has characterized the Trump era. Event #1 Someone much smarter than I am (my daughter) once said to me, … Read more
Friday evening, in a last-ditch effort to save its Memorial Day weekend profits, Publix, “one of the 10 largest-volume supermarket chains in the country,” announced it would no longer make contributions to the campaign of Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Putnam. The news came minutes before a scheduled “die-in” organized by David Hogg, a survivor … Read more
I have never spent a day in a classroom in the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, but based on the behavior of one of its undergraduates, there is only one of two possibilities. The faculty of this prestigious institution does not understand the foundations of successful enterprises (which I doubt) … Read more
In 2014, I was watching the University of Virginia (my alma mater) win its first NCAA tournament game under current coach Tony Bennett. In the post game interview Bennett opened by thanking “his lord and savior Jesus Christ” after which I wrote to UVA president Teresa Sullivan and suggested the institution’s founder and author … Read more
PLEASE! I have a friend Chuck Fluharty who founded the Rural Policy Research Institute at the University of Missouri. Among his many insightful observations was the reason for the lack of political support for programs which would support the viability of rural communities. Simple! Politicians follow the Willie Sutton rule . Except, instead of … Read more