September 2024
8 articles published this month.
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Notes From My Journal
New York City Still Feels Remarkably Healthy
K and I were in the Big Apple this past week. And our time there was full of surprises. The streets and avenues of midtown and downtown were relatively clean, and the sidewalks were crowded. The mood was…
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Worth Considering
Who’s Controlling the Information You Get Online?
Zuckerberg just emptied out the whole can of beans. Prior to the 2020 election, the FBI and the Justice Department intimidated Facebook into flagging scientific studies whose results were critical of the COVID…
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Worth Watching
Nice Journalist, Bad Journalist
When police want to intimidate someone into copping to a crime – regardless of whether the suspect is guilty – they use the good cop/bad cop routine because it is very effective. When people don’t understand…
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News & Views
Country Music Is Booming
Country Music Is Booming It’s big and getting bigger – and in a very democratic way: through sampling on social media. I’ve been predicting to people in my industry that the internet and social media have set…
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Fun and/or Interesting
Six Quick Bites
Six Quick Bites * Interesting. The WHO issued greatly reduced Monkeypox case and death numbers on Aug 28. Click here. * Interesting. The worm turns. The Biden administration put Tulsi Gabbard on “Quiet Skies,”…
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Readers Write
From CA re my Aug. 30 essay on “The State of Our Economy
From CA re my Aug. 30 essay on “The State of Our Economy”: “Check out the Aug. CCI (Consumer Confidence Index). Although people with jobs naturally have more confidence than those without, the overall trend is…
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Postscript
New Monthly Magazine Format Launches Next Month
The first monthly issue of this blog will be posted in about three weeks. Here’s what you can expect: The monthly issues will be longer than the weekly issues. And they will look and feel more like a magazine…
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Just One Thing
How-to-Succeed-in-Business Books: Which Ones Can You Trust?
“I’m a sophomore in college, majoring in business, and I want to start my own business after I graduate. I’m taking all the usual courses on accounting, management, and finance, but I want to supplement what…
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