It Was Much Bigger Than The Firing of An FBI Director President Trump fired James Comey his FBI Director last night. He did it because his new Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein wrote a note that said Comey had botched the Hillary Clinton email investigation. The same investigation that the President applauded and that likely led to Trump’s victory. President Trump then wrote a termination…
If Not, How Will We Know? After only 26 days it appears that people are tired of this new President. Donald Trump’s supporters are tired of defending him and don’t understand the people who don’t want to live in the country he’s promised. His detractors can’t believe that this country was somehow turned over to him. I get it. Facebook is overrun with vitriol and…
The Pillars of Trump’s New Government Governments come in different types. The list is long and varied and it includes: monarchy, confederacy, oligarchy, theocracy, plutocracy, kleptocracy and meritocracy. Governments range from the legitimate and benevolent to the illegitimate and evil. Some strive to be open and transparent while others closed and duplicitous. Some give a voice to everyone while others give a voice to only one…
Words Are My Medium Video is the most powerful communications format in the world today. Facebook and YouTube drive over forty percent of all Internet traffic. Much of that traffic is video and that’s because Google owns YouTube. Google transcribes much of the video that is posted to YouTube and has incorporated those transcripts into its SEO algorithm. So while putting a video up on...
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What yesterdays’ business news tells us about tomorrow. This was a crazy week in business. Not that every week isn’t crazy but this week the big companies made some damn important announcements. Basically, Apple grew up, Microsoft got old, Google got surprised, Time Warner became a bulls-eye and Forbes went foreign. Here’s a quick look not only at what happened but what I think these...
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Up or down? What will they think? Most of my meetings these days happen in Starbucks. That’s good because I like Starbucks. The employees are friendly, their coffee is decent, the stores are clean, there’s a buzz of business in the air and as an office goes – it’s cheap. Rent is about three bucks a day for a “Venti Pike with room”. Far less than...
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