Alan Weiss' The Uncomfortable Truth

The befuddling hypocritical debates and election process viewed with all dispassion.

The government was set up to protect us from others and from ourselves, it appears.

You can't turn around these days without someone lecturing you on something.

He may be my brother or she may be my sister, but we don't help out like we once did.

Where we examine why the honeybees are smart but dead.

Everybody loves somebody sometime. Or, they really should.

Wherein Alan shares some truths about himself which, he hopes, won't make you too uncomfortable.

Despite modern technology and increasingly rapid communications, we've become more and more isolated.

It's no longer sufficient to merely win, the other person must LOSE!

Pure wind, pandering, and outright lies told with a straight face.

How we are told of the exceptions as if they are normal and not told of the normal as if they are exceptions.

Wherein we examine the uncomfortable truth about people and politicians seeking the benefits of free stuff.

We have the dumbest priorities possible, focusing on the vague and esoteric and not the issues in front of our faces.

Why talent always "outs" except when the conditions don't allow it or there's not enough talent.

The Michelangelo Factor and why careers can be works of art if we cull away everything that doesn't fit our passions and skills.

Arthur Miller today might write about The Death of All Salesmen, because traditional selling is going out of business.

Why mastering a spelling bee isn't at all important and why understanding reasons and relationships is.

Why progress in personal transportation is questionable, and how personal injury lawyers probably invented it.

The way you think about your position is the way people will think about you.

Why Ponzi is alive and well and calling it "multi­level marketing" is just lipstick on a pig