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
Last night, Bill Maher became the most recent defender of Michelle Wolf’s performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner (WHCD). He echoed others by saying, “She did her job!” Yes. If her job was to create sympathy for Donald Trump. On April 28, the day of the WHCD dinner Trump’s approval rating according to … Read more
Last December, the Washington Post published an article titled, “The surprising thing Google learned about its employees — and what it means for today’s students.” After years of hiring based on “algorithms to sort for computer science students with top grades from elite science universities,” Google asked an important question. This may be fine for … Read more
Yesterday, a frequent reader and friend sent me an article by Mark Buchanan of BloombergView titled “Why Trump Gets Away with Lying.” It points out how a survey taken after the 2016 election found, “Trump supporters don’t believe many of his lies, especially his most egregious ones.” According to the researchers who undertook the study, it … Read more
In case you missed it, the time stamp on Donald Trump’s Wednesday morning Twitter threat to send our “nice and new and ‘smart!’” missiles into Syria read, “3:47 AM.” Obviously, Trump had a sleepless night. But he was not the only one. I too was up at 3:30 Wednesday morning. And, as usual, I … Read more