Someone had to do it. So former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown Jr. stepped up this weekend and kicked off the conversation that has to be had: Should Vice President Joe Biden be replaced on the 2012 presidential ticket? Brown used the old prediction method: New York governor Andrew Cuomo will become the VP nominee […]

There’s something about a good old-fashioned publicity stunt that makes me want to jump up and cheer –  to call every single person I know to tell them about this most amazing thing going on. Taco Bell has to win the prize for best stunt ever:  When the Mir space station was plummeting to earth […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFULUWFTgg0 One more video today.  This one a trailer for a documentary film coming out in movie theaters later this year.  If you don’t know the story of New York Say Thank You, you should learn it.  New York Says Thank You is one the great stories and organizations of our time.  It will make any cynic […]

My father in law sent me this video a week ago, but for some reason I could not post it on here.  It’s finally working now.  Apologies if you already have seen it. You’ll like it if you’re in the word business.  Even if you’re not. http://youtu.be/Hzgzim5m7oU            

The first time I saw talking points I was shocked by them.  I was 25 years old, and I suppose naïve, because my first inclination was to hide them down the back of my pants.  They struck me as illicit at worst and cheating at best – like Cliff notes in high school.  I didn’t […]

President Obama released this Proclamation Tuesday commemorating the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War.  Including it here in case any of you have not seen it.  I had not. On April 12, 1861, artillery guns boomed across Charleston Harbor in an attack on Fort Sumter. These were the first shots of a […]

So the Chinese have now banned thinking about or viewing television programs or movies that simulate time travel.  Plot lines on Chinese television may no longer engage in “fantasy, time-travel, random compilations of mythical stories, bizarre plots, absurd techniques, even propagating feudal superstitions, fatalism and reincarnation, ambiguous moral lessons, and a lack of positive thinking.” That’s […]

I had a wealthy client some years ago who took to inviting me to the fanciest New York dinner parties. They were the type of parties where one or two guests might arrive wearing sashes, and no one would burst out laughing. Would you please pass the salt, Contessa? That sort of thing. I was […]

Crain’s New York Business just released its annual rankings of New York City’s largest employers. The top six are: The City of New York (152,836) New York City Department of Education (121,255) Metropolitan Transportation Authority (66,240) United States Government (52,800) New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (36,964) State of New York (26,500) That’s 430,095 government employees in […]