Madden Mischief

How we Americans worship dieting, trimming down, becoming sleek and streamlined has become almost a fetish.  An addiction.   It’s now a passion pounding away at our stomachs whereas once upon a time it was sexy to be full figured.   Didn’t artists in the renaissance see curvaceously abundant bodies as beautiful?   Fatness was … More TIRED OF THOSE WEIGHT-LOSS COMMERCIALS? MARIE, HAVE WE GONE SVELTE OVERBOARD?

  Mr. President, you’ve won.  Instead of berating your favorite whipping boy “fake news” and rattling off “I told you so,” accept this win for the Gipper graciously. Look. You’re winning across the board.  With the economy. With jobs. Internationally and now Mueller’s bullet misses you by a mile. So please consider this advice from … More TO MUELLER’S TOSSING IN THE TOWEL ON MORE INDICTMENTS, PLEASE PRESIDENT TRUMP, TRY TO WIN THIS ONE GRACIOUSLY . . . FOR THE GIPPER

WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT FIRST IMPRESSIONS GOES QUADRUPLE FOR NEWS RELEASES   Rule #1:  Don’t write them like everyone else.  Be startlingly different.  Uniquely engaging.  RIVETING would be nice for a change! Rule #2:  Fewer words are stronger than many words, especially in a headline.  If you’re over 25 words, you’ve had it.  You’re DOA! … More DON’T ARRIVE DOA!

A young man asks his grandfather to please shut the news when he visits, especially FOX News, which he finds stressful.  His grandfather explains that’s like asking him to stop breathing. GRANDPA   I need the news.  I breathe the news.  It’s the oxygen I need in my life.  Keeping abreast.  Staying informed.  Engaged.  And you … More Grandpa, Turn Off the Stressful News. Put on Something We All Can Enjoy!

My Beloved Departed Angela Back in Our PR Heyday in Manhattan Together   Upon the death of my beloved wife Angela early Sunday morning, I wrote to a friend of ours in prison for a non-violent offence. Occasionally she’d pray on the phone with Bill who felt a kind of kinship with Angela as she … More Free At Last

This is the last of a three-part series on Energy Eye Openers—TEN THINGS I BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT ENERGY–thanks to the experts at EnergyProfessionals who opened my eyes.   You know about LED lightbulbs and that they cut energy use. But do you know by how much?  They’re the light-emitting diodes, a type of … More FINAL FOUR FACTS I’ll BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT ENERGY!

This is the second of a three-part series of Energy Eye Openers—TEN THINGS I BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT ENERGY–thanks to the experts at EnergyProfessionals who opened my eyes.   Is the cost of energy rising or falling? If you said falling, you’re in the running for a brand new Tesla, that is if you … More HERE’S A FEW MORE FACTS I’ll BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT ENERGY!

Yes wine may be giving suds a run for its money, but when it comes to TV, America is still one giant beer fest.  Can you imagine a Super Bowl without “Bud?”   “I liked beer.  I still like beer,” Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh famously testified last year at his not so bubbly … More Beer keeps spilling over the news, from drenching hearings for a Supreme Court Justice, to filling a governor’s infamous college yearbook, but I have story that’ll warm your heart

Over the Next Several Weeks, I’ll Be Giving You Some Energy Eye Openers,  Starting With These First Three, Thanks to the Experts at EnergyProfessionals Who’ve Opened My Eyes.   Did you know that If you live in 1 of the 16 deregulated states, you don’t have to pay the utilities rate?   That’s right.  You have … More BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW THIS ABOUT ENERGY!