In 2007 I did a speaking tour of eastern Europe, including Hungary, Poland, Russia, and Croatia. I spent a night in Belgrade, but my talk was canceled because there were anti-American skinheads waiting outside the hotel looking for Americans to beat up.
When there are flood waters, it’s easy to forget how completely everything gets damaged. There’s the obvious stuff, like rivers of pig shit and urine going into the rivers and then everyone’s living room, but what about the subtle stuff – the stuff most of us won’t even think of?
Every morning I wake up and ask out loud, “did Trump resign last night?”
The investigation into Trump’s crimes has done exactly what I was afraid it would: it has discovered that the entire upper level of the administration is part of the conspiracy.
In my opinion, there are some apologies that are worse than nothing. If a course of action is harmful or annoying to others, yet we choose to pursue it anyway, it is a considered action; presumably we have weighed the pros and cons and decided that it’s still worthwhile.
One of the things that creeps me out about Mayor Pete is the corporate consultant-gabble that he sometimes drops into. It makes sense: he worked for McKinsey in his 20s, as one of the drones in the giant cash-extractive machinery of big dollar consulting. That’s where he learned to proactively leverage his synergies, I bet. [stderr]
… If I may, some opinions regarding impeachment and process.
Come you masters of war
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These seem like a great way to keep score.
“A rising tide lifts all boats.”
I’ve got no idea how many times business people and venture capitalists have said that to me, but if I could, I would have personally, slowly, stabbed them in the heart for doing so.