Discardia, a season for discarding old things and ideas, between the Solstices & Equinoxes and their following new moons, is upon us.
Discardia is celebrated by getting rid of stuff and ideas you no longer need. It’s about letting go, abdicating from obligation and guilt, being true to the self you are now. Discardia is the [...]
Talk like a pirate day is over. Thank God.
Two Republican politicians are getting plenty of press about poll numbers. Both Arnold Schwarzenegger, California’s movie star Governor, and George W. Bush, the United States’ nucular President, are sinking in the polls. In fact, each day they seem to find new lows. If they aren’t careful, their approval ratings may fall lower [...]
A few weeks ago, I wrote to complain that the Center for Economic Policy Research was doing an interesting set of seminars called “Basic Economics for Policy Analysis and Self Defense” and would be “podcasting” them. However, there was no evidence that there would be an RSS feed to cast their audio files.
I stand [...]
Just because I want to post something new, I thought I’d go through the unfinished posts in my system and decide what to do with them:
1. Elevator Speeches
In fundraising — and I suspect in most other kinds of marketing — you have the “elevator speech.” This is a 50 words-or-less synopsis of what [...]