Don't read this if you want to sleep well tonight. Stay away from the comments too. People would be swarming in the streets with pitchforks and torches tonight, except that so many of us are afflicted with innumeracy and because we are so easily distractible. How many of us have…
As though the FCC doesn't have real work to do (media over-consolidation, net neutrality, diversity in broadcasting). No, the FCC is still worked up about Janet Jackson's breast, which "flashed for nine-sixteenths of a second during her [2004 Superbowl] performance with Justin Timberlake." Egads! I hope that the numerous young…
There's hope for those of us with messy desks. This is a photo of Albert Einstein's messy desk taken in April, 1955. I enjoyed this anecdote regarding Einstein: EINSTEIN came to Princeton University in 1935 and was asked what he would require for his study. he replied: "A desk, some…
The November issue of The Atlantic features Michelle Rhee, the new 38 year old Chancellor of the Washington D.C. School District. This is an excellent biography, titled "The Lightning Rod," which focuses on what Rhee had to do to get anything done at all. Consider her bold approach: Since her…
I remember watching a physical fitness workout expert named Jack Lalanne when I was about 6 years old (this was back in 1962). I stumbled across LaLanne's name today and wondered whether he was still alive. Indeed he is. Now 94, Lalanne has lived long enough to transform his media…