More on Senator Kerry
Well, and Your Humble Blogger has been asked about his lukewarm feeling for John Kerry. I haven’t gone into detail, partially because I find it depressing to talk about what I dislike about the man I will vote for in…
Author Archives: Vardibidian
The whole megillah, it isn’t.
Your Humble Blogger feels hijjous hungover this morning. Perhaps it’s my just punishment for failing to drink last night. Happy (and peaceful) Purim, Gentle Readers all! Redintegro Iraq,-Vardibidian….
Book Report: Wild Horses
Not much to say about Your Humble Blogger’s umpty-eleventh reread of Dick Francis’ Wild Horses (New York: Jove 1995). Redintegro Iraq,-Vardibidian….
Draft Note to John Kerry
Your Humble Blogger has, like most of us bloggers on the left, ideas to help Sen. Kerry win the election this fall. While it’s true that any idea I have had has almost certainly already occurred to the highly-paid professionals…
Tipping the Vote: Using the Few
So, the Law of the Few is that the Few, including Mavens, Connectors, and Salesmen, have a disproportionate influence over the many, and that therefore, if you want to Tip a social epidemic, you can save your resources by finding…
Bleah
Your Humble Blogger hasn’t blogged about Our Only President for a nearly a month, now. Why? Well, lots of other people have been doing it for me, and what’s more I can’t face the news coming out of the White…
Book Report: A Kentish Lad
Your Humble Blogger was familiar with Frank Muir from the radio shows My Word! and particularly My Music. It was from listening to My Music, in fact, that I developed my concept of the Maximum Fun Quotient. Paraphrased bit I…
The Tipping Point: Salesmen
Ok, the Few are, according to Malcolm Gladwell, the Mavens, the Connectors and the Salesmen, who have disproportionate influence on the rest of us. I’ve talked about Connectors, and I’ve talked about Mavens, so what’s left is the Salesmen. Finally,…
Seussentennial
It’s the Seussentennial! And, like reading Joyce on Bloomsday, hundreds of thousands of people will be reading Dr. Seuss aloud today. The difference, of course, is that hundreds of thousands of people will be reading Dr. Seuss aloud tomorrow, too,…
Tipping Point Digression: The Return of the Mavens
Some six or seven years ago, the smart people at New Line decided on a marketing strategy for their absurdly risky venture. They would get the Mavens on their side. You see, there happen to be quite a few Tolkein…