Left brain, right brain
Politics is a funny business, where politicians often find themselves passionately defending positions in public that they privately admit are deeply flawed compromises. But the events of the past few months are setting a new high-water mark for doublethink at 24...Inaugurantidote.
It’s been days since Bush’s inauguration, and yet the aftertaste persists. (Kind of a mix of sulfur and that waxy taste you get when someone’s been spraying pesticides nearby.) For some, it was the grotesque spectacle of dropping $40 million on a...A thriving garden of horrors
Two disturbing pieces from this week’s Sunday Times: Frank Rich on how easily the Abu Ghraib atrocities have vanished from our TV screens, and Andrew Sullivan’s review of two books on the scandal. Both are worth reading, but Sullivan’s piece is...Norman Ruff, meet Occam’s Razor
I missed this a week ago, but Gazetteer didn’t. With the Globe’s business section baffled by the possibility that Gordon Campbell could actually lose the next election, UVic-quitous Professor Norman Ruff rode to the rescue with the suggestion that economic...And he’s pretty sure he saw Clifford the Big Red Dog humping Elmo.
Focus on the Family is starting to look less like an intolerant right-wing pressure group, and more like a sad, vaguely embarrassing, intolerant right-wing cry for attention. FoF founder Dr. James C. Dobson achieved the nearly-impossible this week: he upstaged his pal...
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Public speaking and speechwriting: the essential guides
Looking for advice on public speaking, speechwriting and leadership communications? Here are some of my most comprehensive posts, on topics that people ask me about most often.
