Fast Company: Agency or Indie Band

I wrote this rocking quiz for Fast Company to test if people could guess which name was an ad agency or an indie band. Do you know if you could go see Juniper Park play live or not? Here’s the quiz. You want to remember at least one for your next cocktail party.

Trust in the GOP’s Dearth of Experience

When Republicans warn that a policy is a job-killer, Americans should listen. If any group of lawmakers and thinkers know about killing jobs it’s the Grand Old Party. In 2008, the final year of the Bush Administration, after two terms of careless deregulation implemented with bastardized pseudo-free market battle cries, the economy lost 2.6 million… Continue reading

The Latest Republican Conspiracy Theory

It seems everybody gets their own pet conspiracy these days: Birthers, Birchers, Deathers, Truthers and whatever you call the people who won’t get their kids inoculated. According to the theories, nothing is as it seems and everyone is in on it. Following this reasonable assumption, I’ve come up with my own. Here it is: former… Continue reading

Freedom and Faux Populism

The trick to great rhetoric is to pick a word or phrase everyone likes and no one can possibly be against. Then take that expression and be completely for it daring anyone to challenge you. President Barack Obama campaigned for “change.” Change was such a good platform after eight years of George W. Bush that… Continue reading

Privatized Bureaucracy is Still Bureaucracy

The knee-jerk “government is bad” argument against health care reform, the jobs bill or banking regulations is always “it creates more bureaucracy.” This is mainly from Republicans who want to be called lawmakers. Yes, there are people working in the government ”” gladly cashing their government paychecks ”” whose default is always that the government… Continue reading

Obama: The Flame War President

Every horrendous thing one could possibly say about President Barack Obama has been said. It’s been said, repeated, blogged, taped, printed, e-mailed, syndicated, broadcasted and most likely spray painted somewhere. Some of the verbal grenades are slightly off-base. For example: you know who’s really offended by Obama being called a Nazi? Nazis. Whoa are they… Continue reading

The MSM Doesn’t Exist…Not Anymore

The mainstream media gets denounced on cable news programs, corporate talk radio, best-selling books and behemoth blogs every day. This strangely doesn’t seem to bother the mainstream media as it heroically absorbs all the jabs thrown at it from, well, itself. It’s stoically unfazed. Admirable in its immunity. Yes, this code word for “liberal media,”… Continue reading