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BP Oil Spill: A Disaster of Leadership and Strategy
A Failure In Leadership This article is based on a historically important article in the New York Times on the BP oil disaster. I will be referencing this article. Point of Failure #1 The article, which is important and should be read in full, walks us through publicly known (though not all well known) data…
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9th Innings, Closers, and Politics
Baseball Idioms In Politics Here’s an excerpt from this article on a bill to boost health compensation to “first responders” (health workers, firefighters, police officers) who responded to the World Trade Center attacks and are believed to have suffered higher rates of cancer etc. as a result. “It’s the ninth inning and we need a…
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Prosecuting Wikileaks and Assange Still A Dream
It’s Not Realistic Background Here If you peruse the above article, U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden is carrying the flag for Department of Justice (DOJ) efforts to prosecute Julian Assange, who Biden characterizes as more of a “high-tech terrorist” than a publisher of secrets. Let’s back up for a second and review a salient fact in…
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So-Called Canadian Culture
A Contradiction In Terms The problem with trying to write an article about Canadian culture is rather simple. As a Canadian, I am well placed to be fully aware that most Canadians have renounced any concept of a Canadian culture. There’s an awful lot of identity, and built upon that (or is that the other…
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American Culture: The Imperfect Hero
Movie Logic In American television and film culture, or put another way, movie logic, we encounter, with overwhelming frequency, the flawed, imperfect action hero. The flaws in this hero are usually obvious. They are easy to see, and easy to understand. The hero may be, in fact, a quite despicable person in many respects; the…
