By Martin H. Levinson Today’s business lesson from the Bible is about the role of influencers in getting people to do one’s bidding. The Good…
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By Martin H. Levinson If two heads are better than one, then four heads would be better than two, eight better than four, and so…
Warning: Sarcastic Spoiler Alerts! The Sun Also Rises An impotent American, a slutty Englishwoman, and their questionable expatriate friends drink and fuck their way around…
By Martin H. Levinson Everyone likes Happy Hour with its cheap drinks, free appetizers, and the opportunity it provides to socialize with friends and associates.…
Time to parent up. Nobody told you to have kids. Hey, I bet people even discouraged you, but you did it despite the warnings. You must not have listened when friends told you what crappy parents you’d make; you did the fertility treatments anyway and low and behold—twins!
by Mary Cappelli, MFA, JD, PhD Recently at my very liberal high school in West Los Angeles, I was called into the Administration because a…
By Tom Deisboeck First off, I want to extend a warm “Ni Hao” to the supremely talented PLA hacker assigned to scour lines like these…
A recent study stated that “The keys to a high-quality life after age 60 are health, money, and having a meaningful life.” Ah, if it…
by Tom Deisboeck … yes, there’s some pesky odor because it’s high season for self-congratulatory shite. No, I’m not referring to the slowly dying breed of…
By Martin H. Levinson Had Facebook been around during the time of the Crusades, at the start of the American Revolution, or right before World…
by Michael J. Mangano You grow up in then-unfashionable Brooklyn, become an adult and make enough money to afford moving out of Brooklyn to Manhattan’s fashionable, expensive…
By Martin H. Levinson From the Boston Tea Party to the 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol, Americans have always been partisan and overblown in…
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