Big Government is Not the Issue By Steven Kull An abridged version of the following article appeared in Politico. It includes some newly released poll findings that can be viewed here. Conventional wisdom is that the political pendulum has swung…

William Hazlitt said, “Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.” Yet public opinion is what it’s almost always about. Facts are important, data is helpful, and science defines reality. But public opinion grounds decisions. And that’s what these…

An article (paraphrased below) from Eric Effron in The Week made a nice comparison on a topic that you may be dealing with. Until (fairly) recently, many New Yorkers, including Mayor Michael Bloomberg, were relishing the opportunity to bring self-described…

When you flatter someone they’re more likely to look on you favorably, even if your flattery is pretty transparent and shameless. The truth is that most of us think we’re above average even though that’s, of course, statistically impossible. It…

“TMI” (Too Much Information) has become a standard punch-line response when somebody reveals an embarrassing level of personal news. But too much information has steadily become a huge problem for many of us. According to the University of California San…

For Christmas and Hanukkah last year, I sent out, what had been determined (through literally tens of minutes of exhaustive research) as, the world’s greatest joke.  And I only managed to offend four people from New Jersey.  Funny is easy,…

Failure to Communicate Strother Martin’s character the Captain in ‘Cool Hand Luke’ delivered that iconic line in the title of this e-mail.  Many of us in the communication biz have thought of it thousands of times when we see a…