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Roseanne Barr and Samantha Bee: Predictably Awful versus Childishly Crude
We live now in an ugly place – a place where people say and do ugly things. And, it is symptomatic of the political and social realities of the time. Roseanne Barr’s recent racist utterance was ugly, and, yes, reactions and... Read →
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A Feel Good Story From France that Could Not Happen Here in the US – At Least Not Now
This morning, CNN is reporting on an amazing “feel good” story from France. Mamadou Gassama, a 22-year old Malian migrant, scaled the outside of a Paris apartment building to rescue a 4-year old dangling from the balcony of... Read →
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A Star Has Fallen
There was a time, not long ago, when Elon Musk was seen as one of the great, if not the greatest, innovators and minds of the early 21st Century. He not only introduced and built Tesla, but he set his sites on space travel and new and... Read →
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Bill Ackman Puts $1 Billion into Lowe’s. I am Out!
Lowe’s has always been an interesting company to me. I’ve been in the stock many times over the last 25 years. Prior to the financial crisis in 2008, it actually traded at a premium to Home Depot and was growing faster... Read →
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I Went to A Fortified High School
I grew up in Paris in the 1980s. Not Paris, Texas but Paris, France. At the time, Americans were under attack in the City of Light and American institutions were heavily fortified. That included the American School of Paris, my... Read →
Cold Storage
Watching the royal wedding unfold before the cameras and the large crowds in England was lovely, inspiring and sad. It was lovely to see such wonderfully British pageantry; it was inspiring to enjoy a happy and loving young couple; and it... Read →
We Have Become Immune to School Shootings Already. How is this Possible?
Today’s news of yet another school shooting – this time just outside Houston – and the loss, yet again, of the lives of countless youngsters has my friends and colleagues outside the US calling and writing messages on... Read →
A Royal Marriage Truly Worth Celebrating
Like many Americans who have lived and spent time in the UK, I have never been able to relate to the reverence or the relevance of the royal family. It has been even tougher to understand how people in such distant lands (such as parts of... Read →
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Legalization of Sports Betting Could Be a Final Step in the Conversion of the US to a Banana Republic
I have lived in and done business in some of the most corrupt and broken places on earth. Regrettably, America is now quickly joining the ranks of third world banana republic-type countries. Michael Cohen scampering around and trying to... Read →
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A Rock Solid Investment -- And Mothers Roll the Dice with the Lives of Their Children: A Story of Sex, Cancer, and Ignorance
I am talking here about a parent’s opportunity and responsibility to ensure that his or her daughter (son too) receives the HPV vaccine (the human papillomavirus vaccine), preferably between the ages of 11 and 12. This vaccine is an... Read →
What is Really Happening between the Koreas?
Why such apparent and abrupt change of positions between North and South Korea? Is it, perhaps, fear on both sides of an unpredictable Donald Trump and what he might do without even a minute’s notice and certainly without... Read →
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Facebook’s Problems Are Just Beginning
In 2004, I founded a company called WiProx. The company was based on a vision that a ubiquitous platform could deliver contextual advertising to individuals who have opted into this advertising and who would receive consideration... Read →
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US Treasury Department Eases Sanctions on Rusal – Is this Trump Or Something Else?
The US government’s sanctions against Russians who interfered in the October 2016 US election seem to be having some impact. The most recent round of sanctions – directly against bizillionaire Oleg Deripaska – through his... Read →
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Michael Cohen Is Not Flipping
Over the last two days, it has been very difficult to turn on the news without a major network reporting that Michael Cohen may flip and turn State’s evidence on the man who has employed him for a decade as his organization’s... Read →
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