Is Howard Dean Angry? I think not.
Certainly after the Iowa caucus, Dean’s reputation as an angry person has spread wide and far. To me, he looks passionate, not angry. In Iowa, over-the-top passionate, but still–not angry.
People recognize emotions using several different facial expression cues. Professor Paul Ekman has spent his career studying how emotion is [...]
The Gay Agenda and the Destruction of Marriage
… get over it
[Note: this was written the day before Pres. Bush's 2004 State of the Union address, in which he suggested a constitutional amendment to "protect" marriage.]
A lot of people have been afraid that letting gay people get married will result in the “destruction of marriage.” I [...]
Tax cut obsession is absurd; vote for tax increases!
The paper was full of Democrats promising middle-class tax cuts yesterday. I really don’t understand why the national obsession with tax cuts. People seem to think about taxes as if the government is stealing from them. As much as I believe the government does steal on occasion(1), [...]
Getting older is just fine, thank you!
I was shopping for a birthday card for a friend today and was struck by the sentiment on virtually all the cards: “you’re getting older, how sad for you.” Of course, I nodded sagely, wouldn’t it be great if he were turning 30 instead of 40?
But wait a second. [...]
AOL Censors Free Speech
I was trying to tell a friend about http://www.BushIn30Seconds.org, a site airing commercials summarizing what the filmmakers think is wrong with current administration policies. My message to my friend at AOL bounced with the message:
(reason: 554 TRANSACTION FAILED: (HVU:B1) The URL contained in your email to AOL members has generated a [...]
“We make change for customers only…” Bad business … bad society?
I had to take the light rail today from Newton Center back into Boston. Newton Center’s small subway depot has since become a chain coffee store. Although this subway stop requires an unusually large amount of change for a single trip ($2.50), the cash register [...]
Political correctness gets silly
Political correctness in Ben Franklin’s America. … say what?
I was watching an excellent documentary on Ben Franklin’s life last night. At one point, an academic expert was talking about why Franklin become a slavery opponent late in life. It seems in France, he saw black children being schooled with white children and [...]
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Welome to my Blog. This is where I’ll be putting musings, ramblings, essays, and thoughts about things other than business, leadership, and such topics. If you want my professional insights, please visit Leadership Decisionworks or VentureCoach. If you want my dreams, my rants, and my two cents on just about everything else, read on!
I’m Stever Robbins, a rather eclectic graduate of Harvard Business School, MIT, and New England Bartender’s School. Not always in that order. My passion is helping people do great things with their lives, and I bring all kinds of tools to bear: cognitive science, systems thinking, an absurd amount of ad hoc knowledge that probably [...]
