The goal of human communications has become speed and efficiency. This can clearly be seen in the world of emails and twitter, which emphasize getting…
Posts published by “Martin H. Levinson”
Martin H. Levinson, PhD, New York University, is a past president of the Institute of General Semantics, book editor for ETC: A Review of General Semantics, and a contributing editor to The Satirist: America's Critical Most Journal. He has published 14 books and scores of articles on topics ranging from self-help fairy tales to social and historical analyses. He is currently a faculty member with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Stony Brook University, a teacher for the United Federation of Teachers’ Si Beagle Learning Program, which is located in New York City, and a lecturer on contemporary and historical topics for schools and public libraries.
With company pensions going the way of the dinosaur and Social Security on the skids, young people should be thinking about how to provide for…
I like to start each day with a victory. So this morning, before I left for the office, I beat my wife to the bathroom…
Self-esteem is the opinion you have of yourself. If that opinion is low, you will have problems getting motivated and being successful. Fortunately, a poor…
The Republicans think Obamacare is a mess and that it should be repealed. But the problem for the GOP is they haven’t come up with…
By Martin H. Levinson How do I love me? Let me count the ways. I love me when I rise at break of day,…
“All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten.” So wrote Robert Fulghum, in his best-selling book of the same title. Among the things…
By Martin H. Levinson 9 April 2017 The Field Guide to People of the USA is the most up-to-date resource for identifying Homo sapiens living…
By Martin H. Levinson 27 November 2016 South of Brooklyn west of the Hudson there’s a land packed with pissed off men and upright women…
Q: How can I tell if I’m ready to date after a divorce or separation? A: “When the idea of getting to know a new…
By Martin H. Levinson Anderson Cooper sticks a mic in front of my face on Central Park South in New York City, cues the camera,…
By Martin H. Levinson If we all owned guns we’d get faster service at the DMV, be listened to more respectfully in the office. Muggers…
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