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Always Be Closing, Sales and the Single Guy
What follows is an annotated transcription of a conversation between a recent sales training graduate and a woman he met online, first date.
In the...
Defining Terms: ‘Patriotism’ and Other Problems
A few months ago, essayist and screenwriter Arthur Krystal wrote a piece in The New Yorker titled, “How Problematic Is Patriotism?”
Regardless of one’s opinion...
Best Job Ever: How to be a Good Grandparent
It is a pleasure to say that having three grandchildren in one’s mid 70s is glorious in all ways.
I see two of my granddaughters...
Visualizing Reform: Preparing for Post-Scandal America
After several decades of gross misbehavior on the parts of three branches of government, the American people appear to be asking the rhetorical questions,...
Human Habitat: Restoration Not Just ‘For the Birds’
Nature lovers know that scientists who study the health of bird populations and their habitats in the San Francisco Bay Area have detected an...
All That Jazz: In Praise of a Uniquely American Idiom
I have my mother—the beatnik, alcoholic artist and reader of poetry—to thank for my deep appreciation of jazz.
And I can still see her, cigarette...
The Thinnest Books in the World: Congress’ lost chapter
We all recall the jokes we told each other back in the days of the wood-burning radios when it was sorta kinda tolerated to...
Open Mic: Inept Reps, Reflecting on Whom We Elected
It might be fun, just for a sec, to talk about what we U.S. citizens should expect from the people we elect to represent...
