Deception, misdirection, your eye moves one way whilst the trick goes the other. Things seem to move when they don’t move at all. Is the coin in my pocket or behind your ear? Find the Queen in 3-card monty. You win the first few hands then lose it all when the misdirection occurs. Now you [...]

You’ve flown around under the radar landing top job after top job (Citgo (who named a tanker after you), Stanford, NSC advisor, and now State) and all one ever hears or sees is an empty dress suit. Your fairy tale assertion that Russia will somehow be isolated because of Georgia is another indication you are [...]

Sitting on the beach in Scotland I was reading the newspaper when an article caused coffee to spurt out from my nose. 7-months after closing and taking ownership of his new Bovis Home, Rennie Bottali was fighting the builder to create a liveable home for him and his family.
Rennie reached a point of frustration large [...]

(Reprise article)
Sven-Goran Eriksson can’t catch a break, fired after leading the England national team to a decent record but no silverware and now a top-10 finish with Premier League team Manchester City, improving them dramatically, is not enough.
Frank Rijkaard is in trouble in Barcelona after making it to the European Cup semi-final and losing by [...]

THERE’S NO SUCH THING as a free lunch. A fool and his money are soon parted. There is a sucker born every minute but hey, maybe you were the minute in between? If it sounds too good to be true…
Grandma’s hyperbole? A little too close a walk down memory lane?

A benefit (and possible business idea) of this week’s travels abroad are two gem websites designed to help one quickly bypass phone “service” PBX queues and get to the right live person that can help you with your problem. Twice today I have been flummoxed by automated phone systems that will not let me speak [...]

(Reprise post from May)
Because you cannot afford to spend every minute with them does not give you the right to pre-plan every minute of every one of their days to assuage your guilt under the guise of helping them.
My daughter Tara turned 5 the other day.
That meant another 525,600 minutes of her life passed. (I [...]

By Barack Obama
Published: July 14, 2008
The New York Times Online
CHICAGO — The call by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki for a timetable for the removal of American troops from Iraq presents an enormous opportunity. We should seize this moment to begin the phased redeployment of combat troops that I have long advocated, and that is [...]

Talking ‘With’ Rather Than ‘At’ Each Other on the Campaign Trail
This e-magazine had its busiest day ever last week by mentioning one man’s name – MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. I happen to like the guy and his work even if he periodically goes off the emotional deep end. Keith is mostly honest, open and brutal and [...]

New York Times Online
By FRANK RICH
Published: July 6, 2008
So much for a July Fourth week spent in idyllic celebration of our country’s birthday. This year’s festivities were marked instead by a debate — childish, not constitutional — over who is and isn’t patriotic. The fireworks were sparked by a verbally maladroit retired general, fueled by [...]