That’s what the no-nonsense emissary from the Soviet Union, Nina Ivanovna “Ninotchka” Yakushova (Greta Garbo) wonders when she arrives in Paris in my favorite film, the classic Ernst Lubitsch-directed, Academy-Award nominated Ninotchka. She is calculating that one cow can feed many of her hungry communist comrades, while what her foolish comrades  outrageously spend on a … More DEMOCRATS and REPUBLICANS can LEARN from NINOTCHKA LIKE HOW MANY COWS DOES A HOTEL ROOM IN PARIS COST?

Virtue in traditional Christian angelology is the seventh highest order of the ninefold celestial hierarchy. So can being impatient ever qualify as a virtue? Could it ever be considered behavior showing high moral standards and character?  Be one of the paragons of virtue synonymous with goodness, righteousness and morality?   Be patient, my child We … More Can Impatience Be a Virtue? Of Course it Can!

According to Peter Ticktin, founder of The Global Warming Foundation, it’s not going to be the wind so much as the water that’s going to do the most damage from exponentially rising temperatures we casually refer to as climate change. But there’s nothing casual about it, says Ticktin.  Planet is getting hotter at a rate … More Will Sunshine State Be Wettest PlayGround Zero Predicting Effects of Exponentially Rising Temperatures?

  Attention Kerri O’Brien, reporter at WRIC TV News in Richmond, Virginia, Florida Governor DeSantis and all those who are concerned when justice becomes cruelty. Here is one Virginia prisoner’s perspective on what we dare call our justice system. Bill is decent guy, a non-violent offender who admittedly made mistakes and is now paying for … More THERE NO RELIEF FROM BLISTERING HEATWAVE TORTURING INMATES AT HELL-HOLE VIRGINIA PRISON

Investors, forget the basically flat to slightly positive yield curve. Forget the corporate buybacks that are the rage and those rising corporate earnings raising everyone’s eyebrows and pulses. Despite the tariff head winds, Iran, North Korea and all the other distractions on this mixed up, do-it-yourself planet, the fact is we have a President and … More If We’re Going to Come Out of This Bull Market Intact, Euphoria Needs to Keep to the Right, Stay in the Slow Lane

  We’ve all had them.  Those moments we wish we could take back, do over. And then there were those doozies, those insanely awkward screw-ups.  Those foot-in-mouth utterances or actions we wish to God had never happened. Like me, I’m sure there were times you’d rather had not said or done something as afterward it … More Most Embarrassing Moments

To bomb, or not to bomb, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler for the United States to suffer, The slings and arrows of outrageous Iran, Or to take arms against their sea of terror And by opposing, end it. To bomb—to endure No more; and by responding to their dastardly drone attack, We end … More How might Shakespeare’s Hamlet ponder TO BOMB OR NOT TO BOMB Iran?

Balmain’s digital models Margot, Shudu and Zhi created by Cameron-James Wilson.                                                                                                                           CreditBalmain Since millions are following a growing number of influencers who are merely pretty pixels, I’m wondering why hire a flesh and blood celebrity, a supermodel or a social media influencer to market products when you can create the ideal brand ambassador … More Having just launched a talent agency to dovetail with my PR firm, TransMedia Group, I’m wondering now why did I do it?