We were disgusted by the circus that was Christie Brinkley’s divorce. She set that brutality in the center of the public square for our stoning and scrutiny. We believe Ms. Brinkley is a bad mother because no good mother would ever purposefully exploit the welfare of her children by mocking and embarrassing their father on television and in reams of newsprint.
Dear Steve Carell —
Please retire. Or at least stay on your “Office” television show if you are contractually obligated to not fully go away yet. At least stop making movies. Spare us from any more of your ordinary, mediocre
mind and lesser talent.
Hulk Hogan said on the Larry King Show this week that the young man —
a former United States soldier — who was injured in his son’s car
crash, and who is now in a constant vegetative state, was so grievously
injured in the accident because God wanted to “make him a better
person.”
The conservative moaning over the Dunkin’ Donuts advertisement starring Rachael Ray is incredibly dismissive of reality and prejudiced against secular facts. The scarf Ms. Ray was wearing in the advertisement was not a “terrorist wrap” in any way and she, and Dunkin’ Donuts, should’ve publicly condemned the conservative effort to shut down their right to express their taste and style to make a dollar.
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John Ritter’s widow is suing her husband’s doctors for $67 million dollars. She claims the lawsuit isn’t about money, but rather about admitting wrongdoing.
If you write a book that deals with computers or the Internet you will likely have an important cog in your editorial process in the form of a Technical Editor.
Wilfred Ruprecht Bion is an interesting researcher who has published a lot of work on group dynamics and he explains why and how groups fail to thrive.
W. R. Bion generally suggests groups are always calculated to fail because of a forced sense of cohesion that is only a cover for competing individual internal desires “unspoken private motives sabotage the public group effort to preserve the self in society.”
In my experience, groups spend a lot of time arguing over process and not in achieving end product.
It is easy to tear down and difficult to build up and those who cannot build up tear down.
Criticism works best when suggestions for improvement are immediately included in the commentary.
Groups more reliably find success when a hierarchical structure is imposed from an outside authority.
A Group Leader helps get things does as does mandating a clear method from outside the group for enforcing for decision-making beyond group unanimity.
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