LEGENDS BETTER WATCH WHAT THEY SAY AS THEY’LL BE JUDGED NOT BY THE STANDARDS OF THEIR TIMES, BUT BY  CURRENT EVENTS, PRESENT DAY BIASES–THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY Protests over police brutality have brought hundreds of years of American history bubbling up through so many of our country’s historic monuments and statues, now … More WATCH WHAT YOU SAY, PILGRIM

Open Letter to Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg In Houston, TX From  Court of Public Opinion Advocate Demanding Freedom for Lamar Burks Dear District Attorney Ogg, you probably believe Lamar Burks is guilty of murder and deserving his 70-year prison sentence, of which he has served already 20 long, hard years, but with all … More IS LIFE IN PRISON ANOTHER KNEE ON AN INNOCENT BLACK MAN’S NECK UNTIL HE CAN’T BREATHE?

After “Thank you” you might as well add “YOU SCHMUCK” for staying on hold so long. For that’s what we’re all becoming as we wait, wait, WAIT to finally talk to a live human being about credit card mischarges, our Internet having a mind of its own, another bank statement vagary. So, are you as … More ‘THANK YOU FOR CONTINUING TO HOLD’

Like many in my profession, I’ve lived a good part of my princely peripatetic life on Planet Publicity.  Our mission?  Making enterprising earthlings rich and famous!  My name’s Tom Madden. A boisterous boutique PR firm I launched in Manhattan in the early 80s rocketed the careers and bottom lines of many entrepreneurs and their businesses … More Meet The Real Me From Planet Publicity

You probably carried their A-Pass® with you when you last took a cruise.  It was your identity card throughout your voyage.  When you presented it upon your return from excursions at different ports,  they’d swiftly check you into their security ID system as back onboard. Happily this great company, Sisco Corp, the leader in Visitor … More YOU GOTTA LOVE A LEADER ESPECIALLY WHEN ONE RETURNS AS YOUR PR CLIENT

If Social Distancing Is Impossible in Prisons, Why Not Free Non-Violent Offenders with Little Time Left to Serve on Their Sentences? Why, Governor, do we continue to imprison non-violent offenders who have obviously reformed themselves and have served almost all their sentence? Please, Governor, when it comes to COVID-19-vulnerable prisoners, don’t let your legacy from … More OPEN LETTER TO GOV. RON DESANTIS

Former President Bill Clinton coined that term a while back when he recalled the sex scandal that led to his impeachment in 1998. He said the extramarital affair he had with Monica S. Lewinsky was a way of “managing my anxieties.” Now maybe it’s happening again. This time President Donald Trump says he’s not just … More What is it about The White House that makes U.S. Presidents so adventurous in the way they ‘manage their anxieties?’

I remember fondly my two adorably chubby, spinster aunts.  Aunt Josie sitting on her thickly upholstered chair, her legs tired from so much cooking are stretched out on the worn footrest beside the stately grandfather clock. Half asleep, she’d either be droopy-eyed watching TV or sleepily listening to her prized 1958 recording of South Pacific, … More Musicals! A Jilted Genre?