Trump has exhausted every adverb, adjective, rebuttal, rational analysis and the essence of deductive reasoning (1 minute read) A syllogism destroyed Since the time of Aristotle (384-322 BCE), the syllogism has been a cornerstone of deductive reasoning and logic. Aristotle defined the syllogism as an argument consisting of three propositions, two as premises and one as conclusion, and this deductive Read more...
Are national anthems really about respect? Or repression? Four things you might not know Patriotism has been recognized since the earliest civilizations but nationalism is a relatively new concept with its origins in the 18th and 19th centuries. Nationalism is a "false consciousness" and nothing more than a well-branded veneer for economic, social and class leverage. Supreme Court Justice Read more...
Egregious behavior by hollow, narcissistic leaders like Stumpf and Trump is, unfortunately, in the DNA of homo sapiens Four things you might not know The root cause of the behavior of bankers and corporate leaders is directly linked to the scientific findings by Charles Darwin in The Descent of Man and reinforced today by Edward O. Wilson in The Social Conquest Read more...
An evidence-based exposé of Trump's mob connections and his history of psychopathic behavior Three things you might not know The public record is clear. For forty years Donald Trump has had personal and business connections with top mobsters, corrupt union leaders, labor fixers, con-artists and a convicted drug trafficker. Trump has been friends with the New York's most notorious fixer, Read more...
New data disproves the mainstream chatter and assumptions Gallup interviewed 87,428 Americans and were able to fine tune where support for Trump is coming from (who and where). It's the driving cause behind his rise and will remain long after he has faded into the sunset over one of his golf courses. Watch this five minute video as Ezra Klein Read more...
A plethora of lessons, a dearth of leadership Six things you might not know: More than 11,000 business books are published annually.[1] Surprise, the top-ten books listed below are seldom on anybody's top-10 or even the top-100 list. Will Durant, the great historian (1900-1981), selected his top-ten thinkers from leadership geniuses across history. On Durant's list, only one author Read more...
Hillary was the Hedgehog, Donald was Chicken Little The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. – Archilochus (680-645 BCE) Four things you might remember: Isaiah Berlin's famous essay, The Hedgehog and the Fox (1953) is a much used metaphor for profiling two types of thinking and it is based on the Ancient Greek writings Read more...
The only three things you need to observe in comparing candidates Mental capability (as defined by Jaques & Cason) Emotional intelligence (as defined by Daniel Goleman) Knowledge (as defined by you or any objective person) In case you didn't mark the calendar, the first US Presidential debate is Monday, September 26th, 9pm (EDT) (4 minute read) The post-debate media coverage Read more...
A truth Alexander Hamilton feared greatly Two things you probably do know – and two you might not Either Donald Trump lied for more than four years or Donald Trump told the truth for four years and is now lying. Donald Trump doesn’t give a damn if he lies or what you think. Adolescence or "arrested adulthood" can continue Read more...
Three things you might not know: Women are still a staggering 118 years away from closing the gender gap. Women hold only 20% of executive positions When women are outnumbered in a group they speak for almost a third less time than men. Synopsis According to the World Economic Forum's 2015 Global Gender Gap report, women are still a Read more...
