There’s a serious kerfuffle in the Absolut brand thanks to a really bad marketing decision. It all centers on this advertisement:
These days, there is a substantial segment of America, perhaps a significant majority, for whom such imagery will be a cause for offense. This is now an official “crisis” and the mode [...]
The video below is stunning. Thank you, Jill Bolte Taylor!
I cannot recall the last time… if there ever was a last time… I gained so much insight or experienced such an incredible multiplicity of revelation from witnessing a single presentation. I may have attended a sermon or two that came close to having [...]
I’m a fan of the Gates of Vienna blog, which focuses on all of the various threats to Western Civilization from a rational traditionalist point of view. It’s authors are well-read, conservative, pithy and wickedly politically incorrect in a calculative manner: They’re my kind of people.
A frequent contributor there, a Scandinavian blogger by the [...]
I consider my personal brand of Conservatism to be descended from that of Edmund Burke and informed in large part by Russell Kirk. Like James Madison, I have a rather dim view of my fellow man when his actions are not voluntarily shackled by moral imperative backed by law.
What is government but the greatest [...]
Things I don’t tell my wife
My wife, Shelley, is a kind person - perhaps the kindest soul I’ve ever gotten to know intimately. Frankly, we are very different people and she’s far more consistently pleasant than I am. I’m outgoing, gregarious and less even-tempered; she’s a reserved, consistent and calming influence on me. [...]
