Bittersweetgate
The news over the past few weeks – or, more accurately, over and over and over over the past few weeks – has been all about Barack Obama’s digitally-recorded comments about small-town working-class bitterness over economic insecurity. I’m torn....The audacity of “nope”
I love this story: Back in January, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) wanted documents that show Johnson ignored his staff when he blocked California’s attempt to institute tough greenhouse gas limits on cars and trucks. The EPA said no, in part because “further...Mow Down Pollution puts a $100 bounty on gas-powered lawn mowers… dead or alive
When I was growing up, my family’s gas-powered lawn mower never seemed like an especially good idea to me. Gasoline invariably sloshed everywhere when I was filling it, and it belched acrid smoke while deafening anyone reckless enough to be outside in our yard...When political sites crash, can cool heads prevail? Lieberman, “hackers” and Joomla
I have a rule in politics that has served me well: never attribute to malice or conspiracy what can be explained just as easily by incompetence. You may remember this story from back in 2006, at the culmination of the bitter primary battle between Ned Lamont and...Do we still even have the option?
Talking to a friend this afternoon, I mentioned how Henry Ford supposedly once said that if he’d asked the public what they’d wanted, they’d have said “faster horses.” The friend’s sober response, with a nod to climate change:...
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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.
