and what comes to mind? The Coffeebucks where you start your day, the supermarket that you stop at on your way home from from work, the store at the mall that carries your size jeans or the gas station where you fill-up for the next workweek?  read more »

Websites are Evolving into Competitive Social Networks.  read more »

and what comes to mind? A vacation in Orlando, the kids swimming in Aquatica, Discovery Cove or Seaworld. Taking-in the movies' sights at Universal Studios or basking in the sunshine on the deck of the Disney Cruises, the pleasant heat radiating all around from the blue sky above to the white-capped ocean below.  read more »

Dream Gone. Southern California is another tourist magnet, like Orlando Florida, where aquatic  parks like Seaworld, Aquatica, and Discovery Cove give parents an alternative to the cartoon theme parks.  read more »

and what comes to mind? Those fantastic curving mountain roads along the ocean with a lone automobile speeding along like it is the only car in the world, the sun glittering off the ocean's waves in the background like the white light of diamonds flashing into your consciousness the power and handling ability of the new model being presented to the American consumer.  read more »

and what comes to mind? A lazy person that didn't work hard enough to achieve the American Dream of a house and a new car? Someone that didn't get enough education to be employable in the New American Economy of temporary jobs and offshore manufacturing of our daily consumer product needs, everything from shoes to toothpaste?  read more »

and what comes to mind?  read more »

for More Bad Ideas.
One of the most recognized brands in the world is that of IBM, International Business Machines,  the manufacturer of "mainframe computers" that have stored and sorted the data (information about us!) that the largest corporations in the world use to conduct there businesses.  read more »

Commentary On His Times Before There Was Politics.
During the Elizabethan Era when William Shakespeare was writing and staging plays there were no  "news media" for the dissemination of  information and entertainment. Local theatres in London were social centers and also the main means of communication to other parts of England.  read more »

on how to alleviate America's Energy Dilemma seem to POP out of thin air. Actually, there is a workshop in far-off New York City where an Economic Elf named Thomas Friedman, columnist for The New York Times (his column of August 11 If Only the U.S.  read more »