In today's world of information overload most people maintain a binary view of things. There's the left; and there's the right.
While I admittedly cant more to the port side than starboard, generally I find both sides full of cow pucky.
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When Rogers & Hammerstein wrote Carousel in 1956 I’m pretty sure that they weren’t referring to June being Pride month; but since it is, it feels appropriate to reference the fact that June is bustin’ OUT.
Over the next several weeks I’ll be penning a...
As with so many things, it seemed simple. It was a situation that on the surface seemed benign, innocuous, but that at its core represented the most dangerous kind of bigotry as well as a valuable lesson about the pitfalls of failed communication on the...
Martin Luther King, Jr. Monument
Today is a holiday in the US. Well, kind of. I mean it’s a holiday that everyone should be observing, but sadly there are many who make it optional.
To me, there is nothing optional about Martin Luther King, Jr....
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There are a few writers whose work I adore and whose writing originated in a language other than that which I speak. Paulo Coelho, Isabel Allende, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and, the writer who has moved me most of late, Pablo Neruda.
In all...
I have a few little ditties marinating at the moment – a rant/open letter to the founders of Airbnb in the aftermath of what I saw as a relatively disastrous presentation by Joe Gebbia at FailCon earlier this week; another one about my experience running...
For anyone who’s connected to me on Facebook (friends), Twitter (friends, acquaintances & some strangers), Google + (random people) or anywhere else on the social web for that matter, there are a few things about me that become abundantly clear after even the briefest of exposure.
I don’t...
Twin Towers, Circa 1999 - Courtesy of @JoanBrady
I did not intend to write this post today. In fact I didn’t intend to speak of what happened ten years ago. My plan was merely to include those whose lives were shattered and who lost their loved...
It’s 3:47pm Pacific Time on Sunday, September 4, 2011. Eight hours ago, Trey Pennington sent this Tweet.
Soon after, he committed suicide.
I do not know how. Nor is that really the point. What compelled me to write this is the grim reminder that the disease of...
Image Scraped Lovingly From the Blog of CC Chapman
What? What’s that you say? It’s only August 2011, so what on earth am I doing talking about an event that doesn’t take place until March of 2012?
Simple. It’s SXSW – the annual rodeo of all things...
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