All Wet

All Wet

by | Mar 13, 2015

Banking on the veracity of the old wives’ tale that cats hate water, Salem thought he was pretty slick hiding in the shower. Turns out he was all wet.
My Litigious Horoscope

My Litigious Horoscope

by | Mar 13, 2015

COLOMBO (AFP) — Sri Lankan police arrested an astrologer after he predicted a planetary change this month will be inauspicious for parliament and the government may not be able to arrest rising living costs – a prediction already made by private economists … Sri...
As If

As If

by | Mar 12, 2015

Empiricism is a dying art. We’ve lost faith in our senses, in the evidence — any evidence — before us. We’ve lost the conviction that what looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck must be a duck. We’ve jettisoned the...
Beautiful Dreamer

Beautiful Dreamer

by | Mar 11, 2015

A friend, who knows I’m a registered Glutton for Punishment, recently dredged up two articles from two years ago (hoard much?) and sent them to me with the spartan query: “Dude, did you ever see these?” Both bore relevance to the insurance industry....
Make the Sentence True

Make the Sentence True

by | Mar 10, 2015

Two things have me thinking about interpretation. The first is the set of responses I continue to get to Martin the Marlin, about which I wrote here. The second is the experience we recently had selecting an image for an email marketing piece. Let’s start with...