About DHughes

Straightspeak’s purpose is to be a catalyst for conversations that make a difference, conversations that foster and elevate thinking. Conversations that change perspective. "Amid the noise and haste” straightspeak is a colloquium for thoughts and knowledge that stimulate the mind. Enjoy! And share.

Men on top? Women on top? What’s up with work, marriage, love and sex?

By |2016-12-10T00:41:00-05:00March 14th, 2013|Categories: business, social|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Keeping it up at both ends is not easy when you both work and it's damn near impossible when there are kids.  Who wrote the book of love? Well there's a bunch of them Everybody, including the neighbor, has an opinion on how to find a balance between office and home, career and family, money and kids, love Read more...

Third world nations – right here in America!

By |2016-12-10T00:41:06-05:00January 22nd, 2013|Categories: social|

Gun violence in American cities exceeds the rates in third-world countries Map compares gun murder rates of American cities versus third world nations. And it ain't pretty. Most large cities have higher murder rates than most third world nations. (map courtesy Atlantic Cities) No matter how tired we might be of hearing about the rampant American gun culture Read more...

Climate change denial is a dangerous, undocumented alien among us

By |2016-12-10T00:41:07-05:00December 10th, 2012|Categories: politics, social|Tags: , , , , , , |

Unfounded propaganda is creating a man-made "bozozone" that is denying us any chance of doing what is right. Three things you might not know: More than six in 10 Americans are represented by elected officials who think that climate change is a big ‘ol liberal hoax — including leaders at the highest level, like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.[1] Only 24 of 13,950 Read more...

Hey grown ups, move over … get out of our way!

By |2016-12-10T00:41:08-05:00November 29th, 2012|Categories: business, social|Tags: , , , , , |

On average, each kid donates between $5 - $10 and that generates $30 million to help other kids. Wow! We the children are doing what many of you adult couch-potatoes should be doing but are not – helping kids build a better future Here a few of the 55,000 happy kids Free the Children has helped get Read more...

It’s a wonderful wired world for marketing––or scary as hell!

By |2016-12-10T00:41:08-05:00November 29th, 2012|Categories: business, social|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

David Ogilvy and Bill Bernbach could never have imagined that "word-of-mouth" advertising meant this. (photo: blognaver) If you're not wired up, you might want to stick to shopping, not selling Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook (forbes.com) Those sizeable numbers in my email notice (PCs around for 35 years, the Internet for 20 years, 2 billion people on Read more...

Dumb and Dumber – no, it’s not a movie; it’s reality

By |2016-12-10T00:41:08-05:00November 20th, 2012|Categories: social|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Socrates, Plato, Lucretius would not have allowed Einstein to pass out of the fifth grade. (vk.com)  We humans are dumber than we were 1000 years ago Are we devolving rather than evolving? Is the human brain, which is 98.4% the same as a chimpanzee’s, slowly deteriorating? If Lucretius (99-55 BC) had known Einstein would he have considered him Read more...

Is Petraeus the exception or the rule–and what’s the rule?

By |2016-12-10T00:41:08-05:00November 19th, 2012|Categories: politics, social|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell: Holding hands in public is quite common, even between secret lovers, and deserves nothing more than a "So what?" (reuters) Why did his mistress choose “All In” as the title for his biography? Why do men and women like General David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell risk success for sex? He, in particular, is Read more...

Oh Canada, oh no! Is Harper selling out to China?

By |2016-12-10T00:41:08-05:00October 29th, 2012|Categories: business, politics, social|Tags: , , , , , , |

Prime Minister Harper toasts the selling out to China. All part of the race to beat Americans to the big China pie. (photo: forestethics.com) Sign this petition BEFORE November 1, 2012 – hurry! Stop Canada's Prime Minister Harper from creating his version of state capitalism! Click here to sign the petition: Here's another conservative who says one Read more...

“Oh Mother of Mary” … did Jesus really have a wife?

By |2016-12-10T00:41:10-05:00September 29th, 2012|Categories: social|Tags: , , , , , |

Written in the 4th century AD, 150 years after the crucifixion, Jesus' little secret may be out. Or not? (reuters) Sacre Bleu!  Has this little piece of papyrus ripped a page out of the 2000-year-old Catholic story of misogyny? Has the Vatican been wrong all along? Did Jesus embrace the marriage of priests and the ordination of women? Read more...

Luxury to die for – and in!

By |2016-12-10T00:41:11-05:00September 4th, 2012|Categories: business, social|Tags: , , , , , , |

Just when you thought it was safe to slip back into that ego-soothing leather MercedesCclass - all that money, so little safety. See that 3 pointed star, you may be wearing it soon. Aaah the quality of luxury brands: Your safety is optional and brand damage protection is not included Most of us know a quality brand when Read more...

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