In Our World

  • Your 15 Minutes

    Andy Warhol once said "every person will be world-famous for fifteen minutes". This phrase was truly prophetic. Some 20 years before The Real World, and 30 years before Survivor and Fear Factor, well before we ever heard of Darva Conger, Regis Philbin or Simon Cowell, this eccentric artist…

  • Too Much Information

    Credit cards, checks and debit cards allow the tracking of our every movement. Many grocery stores have customer loyalty cards which exist more to track our purchases than offer us savings. Think about it – who would offer you discounts if they didn't get anything out of it?…

  • Advertising Overload

    These days we see the selling of naming rights on sports venues, there are ads on the floors of supermarkets, athletes have fast food for their official restaurants, a computer geek can rent space on his chest, a film student can give away space on hers and people…

  • No Common Sense

    Okay, folks, time for a pop quiz! You'd like to see a movie this weekend, but find out that all the theater is playing are PG-13 and R-rated movies. What do you do? What do you do? A. Skip the movie. You don't need to see such trash…

  • Some BIG Numbers

    Mentions of state budgets recently talk about deficits in the billions of dollars. Heard the other day on the radio that California alone is looking at a $38 billion shortfall. Airlines are losing billions of dollars a quarter. The US national debt is nearing $7 trillion. An article…

  • And So It Begins

    Customers ask for your assistance with issue X. You disrupt your life to make things work for them and do your best to present a smiling face all the while. You fix issue X and conveniently, since you're there, they decide to ask about issues Y and Z….