There are some things I just don't get.
One of them is America's chronic inability to address our energy dependence on countries hostile to our core values.
Though grave damage is being done to our national security and economy, as a nation, we just can't summon the will to solve a problem which does have a solution.
Read more »We don't rest enough. We don't move enough.
Those are the paradoxical conclusions from a series of studies that got a lot of media attention last week.
Read more »I had dinner the other night with a Democratic pollster who told me Democrats are heading toward next fall's mid-term elections with a serious enthusiasm gap: The Republican base is fired up. The Democratic base is packing up.
Read more »Lee Marvin, tough character actor turned unlikely (and equally tough) movie star, would have turned eighty-six a couple of weeks back, but of course that event will go largely unnoticed. We lost him over twenty years ago to a heart attack, abetted by some very intense experiences and a stated fondness for tequila in quantity.
Read more »As an active board member of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, I always look forward to attending the annual conference. There are few non-client gatherings I make it a habit to attend annually and the fact that Huffington Post is graciously providing this very forum speaks volumes to the influence our industry has. Thanks to Arianna and her people for their participation.
Read more »In all of the debates about health care reform, one of the stubborn realities is that neither the Obama plan, nor any of the Republican alternatives, will seriously alter the trajectory of relentless cost-escalation in health care.
Read more »Neil Young's father, Scott Young, was a hockey writer who authored classic books like Scrubs on Skates.
So it seemed appropriate that his son, one of Canada's great musical artists, performed Sunday night for the closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. After all, one of Neil Young's great works was After the Gold Rush.
Read more »The European Union (EU) is shocked -- shocked I tell you! -- that Greece used financial engineering to qualify for admission. Exactly how did they think that weaker countries managed to meet the requirements? Now the EU is concerned that geeks used their knowledge of Greece's hidden debt (and bailout negotiations) to manipulate financial markets for their own profit.
Read more »The Google v. China controversy has missed the point. It should be about The Cloud, and how China's attack on The Cloud brought us closer to the future presaged in George Orwell's 1984.
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