Investing in Key People, Not in Pet Projects
Why do so many large businesses forget that people are the key to creating projects that find success and resonance in the marketplace?
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Beware the Freeloading Freelancer!
I have worked as a freelance author, artist and performer for my entire adult life. I support honest freelancers that share the same work ethic and morality. I believe in set project prices. I do not believe in gouging people with an invented hourly rate that suddenly appears when the bill arrives.
The East Village Euro, the Texas Peso and the Border Town Loonie
A single Euro is currently worth 1.4728 U.S. Dollars — is it any wonder that some Manhattan stores in New York are accepting Euros as payment for goods and services?
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Barron Hilton Disinherits Family
Barron Hilton — Paris’ grandfather — is giving away 97% of his hotel fortune to charity when he dies.
Betting on a Two Million Dollar Flop
Is it better, as an author, to make a solid $50,000 on a book and have a tremendous success in the marketplace?
Or is it better to get a $2 million advance on a book and have it die on the vine of public prosperity and to have it slashed by the critics?
Is success for an author measured in popularity or by the pocketbook?
Why Amazon Takes Sixty-Five Percent
Some amateur authors are bemoaning the fac Amazon takes a 65% cut of your Kindle-published book sales.
What those inexperienced authors fail to realize is a normal hardcopy publisher will take a 94-90% cut of the price of your book as payment to recover the cost of creating and printing your book and as the means of making a profit off your words.
Comments on the Writers Guild Strike
There is a Writers Guild strike that is currently and deliciously finally meting out justice to producers who do not value the written word despite their phony, opposite, claims, and I fully support the strike and the effort for writers — the instigators of original inspiration and creation — to get their fair share of future DVD and online entertainment profits.
Fight to the death. Let the producers find their bloody end.
Respecting Adjunct Faculty
We have lived lives of being unappreciated part-time faculty members and we support the American Association of University Professors and their want to bring adjunct faculty up to a higher level of respect and standing in universities:
Today,
48 percent of American faculty serve in part-time appointments, and
non-tenure-track positions of all types account for 68 percent of
faculty appointments. Year after year, the problem gets worse as more
and more faculty jobs are part time or non-tenure track. Faculty
holding these appointments are often poorly compensated–receiving low
wages and few, if any, fringe benefits. Without job security and
academic freedom protections, they are subject to administrative whim.
Students suffer when the majority of faculty are inadequately supported
by their institutions.
Blind Discrimination: Paper Money Feels the Same
Yesterday, in a watershed moment in the history of the disabled, U.S. District Judge James Robertston finally instructed the United States Treasury to find a way for the Blind to discriminate between paper money denominations.
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The Shat is Back!
“The Shat is back!” — that’s the ABC television promotional slogan for 
William Shatner’s unwatchable new gameshow, Show Me the Money!
Am I the only one offended by that slogan?
I guess the FCC and the ABC censors don’t get the tawdry joke — that is no joke at all — because the show’s on-air promotional material also uses “Shat-Tastic!” and “The Shat Hits the Fans!” and other dreary “Shat-isms” to dirty up the eye and ear of the wanton network viewer.
I wonder if the ridiculous dancers on the show are referred to as “The Shatted” and if the contestants are called “The Shatted Upon?”
“Shat” — in case you are not aware — is the past and past participle of: “Sh*t.”
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