Sometimes we take to saying things just because we’ve heard them so many times. It’s oft times a knee-jerk reaction and we don’t even think of the people we offend with our comments. If I’m anything, it’s a stickler for political correctness and fairness to all possibly disparaged group ... Read more

Over the last few years we have all witnessed terrible natural disasters at home and abroad. From Hurricane Katrina's swath of destruction through the Big Easy all the way around the world to the southeast Asian beaches that were washed into the sea along with thousands of people in the 2007 ... Read more

Could Google be spearheading a new movement toward corporate responsibility with its threat to pull out of China ? Honestly I don't think so, but I must say that at a time when major American companies have been abandoning principles of corporate and social responsibility, Google looks to be fi ... Read more

You often hear people saying you have to spend money to make money. That's entirely true- I mean it costs 150 bucks a month for me just to get to the office each day. And that's small beans compared to what I could be paying if I had a car in this city.  So while those who tell us we hav ... Read more

Ever visit the website Ted.com? It's a great source of information to wake your brain up during those office lulls when the computer starts to warp in some pseudo-psychedelic Twilight Zone fashion. That's about where I was an hour ago after I did a thorough copy check on our site and realized my n ... Read more

This month TradingMarkets.com launched their ETF PowerRatings system. It's a spinoff of Stock PowerRatings, a popular rating tool designed to let traders see at a glance which stocks are likely to advance or decline within a set period of time. I've played around with the new ETF PowerRatings a ... Read more

I was giving some thought to my reasons for fundraising for a cure for Crohn's disease and decided to further focus my efforts. Going forward I will be training, running, and fundraising specifically for the children who have Crohn's disease. Most forms of Crohn's set in between the ages of 1 ... Read more

How goes it all?  I know I fell off the map for awhile. The world has been hectic lately, and I've been unable to blog for some time now. Just to give you some quick updates: I moved from Los Angeles to New York City, repurposed my skill set at work, started heavily networking through th ... Read more

You couldn't make these things up, I swear. The Wall Street Journal ran a profile of French protest consultant Xavier Renou this morning. Whether intentional or not, WSJ does a great job of highlighting the overt absurdities and hypocrisies of a Parisian trying to capitalize on the proliferat ... Read more

I wish I had more free time to write about these things as they come to mind, because it would have been perfectly timed two days ago to discuss how I thought the one good thing this down economy might produce is a restructuring of labor practices. But alas, now I can only recycle old news. ... Read more