Month: October 2010

  • It’s OK to suck a tailpipe or yet another moment of Jungian synchronicity

    In today’s Boston Globe Magazine, Clifford Atiyeh’s “The Crusade Against Cars” tackles car lovers’ central dilemma today: “Social responsibility” is the media topic du jour, the latest feel-good narcissism of those leading government, corporations, and other big-mouth organizations. Part of the idea is to give an appearance of top-down restraint – that it’s not OK…

  • Mendacity: lying CEOs

    OK, now that I’ve teed up a 50¢ word like “mendacity,” let me at least tell you what it means. Simply, someone is lying to you. And who hasn’t had the experience of being lied to persuasively? Now, courtesy of researchers from Stanford and a story this morning on NPR that was so fascinating I…