by Mark O'Brien | Mar 9, 2015
The Dumbing of America preceded television programs like Jerry Springer, Oprah, The View, Real Housewives, and every other broadcast and popular-culture offering that indicates the decline of Western Civilization and reduces the public discourse to the level of...
by Mark O'Brien | Mar 6, 2015
After noticing Sammy was conspicuously absent from his usual haunts, we launched an all-out cat-hunt. We found him casually sitting in the recycling bin, wondering what all the fuss was about. And people wonder why we call him Sammy the Goof.
by Mark O'Brien | Mar 5, 2015
Floyd and Boyd are not real people. But they play them on TV. They recently engaged in this discussion during an episode of Unreal People on UPC (the Unreal People Channel). Floyd: Why don’t companies market to vendors? Boyd: What? Floyd: If companies need the...
by Mark O'Brien | Mar 3, 2015
The following program contains graphic situations and dramatizations. It may not be suitable for children, especially those who are extremely impressionable and may be profoundly disillusioned at the realization that the behavior of ostensible adults can range from...
by Mark O'Brien | Mar 2, 2015
As of this writing, there are 12 groups on LinkedIn dedicated to social media in insurance. Those groups have 41,837 members. Yet a client who sells software to insurance companies told me she wasn’t devoting resources to a Facebook page because it wasn’t worth...
