Now, before you start thinking what’s so bad about snuggling up with a pet, here’s the thing… The energy crisis is pretty serious and difficult for the company’s customers…
Author: Harvey Radin
Harvey Radin is former senior vice president in charge of corporate communications and media relations, Bank of America Western Region. He makes his home in Redwood City, CA.
HMPRESENTLY: Psyops, of Sorts?
It might have been psyops, but, all those years ago, who could have known, for sure? ‘Psyops’ wasn’t, exactly, a household word. But, in the news, lately, I’ve been hearing about it, and I’ve been reading about it, occasionally, in adventure novels. In dictionaries, ‘psyops,’ or ‘psychological operations,’ can mean conveying selected information — or, READ MORE
HMPRESENTLY: The Will of the People
Those thousands of complaints got me thinking, about the will of a considerable number of people…
HMPRESENTLY: In Possibly Perilous Moments… Burning the Midnight Oil
“…From his first days as a 16-year-old recruit at the newly seized Guantanamo Bay, he blazed a path for empire: helping annex the Philippines and the land for the Panama Canal…”
HMPRESENTLY: Suddenly… Precipitation
Looking up at — and relishing — dark winter clouds, could this be a sign that a whole lot of other things will be looking up?
HMPRESENTLY: Klaxons and Concerns… but Happy New Year, Anyway!
With those gifts in mind, and needing to preserve them… watch out when people, sounding off from their bully pulpit, want us to believe they support liberty…
HMPRESENTLY: Who’s Been Naughty… Who’s Been Nice?
“Of course, we’ve considered leaving lumps of coal in naughty rulers’ and naughty politicians’ stockings. But one never knows if that will be enough to change their behavior…”
HMPRESENTLY: Conniving… or Coldly Scheming?
A little conniving in politics, out in Washington DC, and in state and municipal governments… we’ve come to know that occurs, and maybe we’ve gotten accustomed to some conniving…
HMPRESENTLY: Getting My Tooth Drilled While Pondering Democracies, Republics, and the Weather
There was, long ago, Vlad the Impaler, for example, and with a name like that, he probably wasn’t an understanding kind of guy…
HMPRESENTLY: In Theory… and The Real Thing
That same morning, also very early, I happened to be out on the road, experiencing in real time what the psychologist had been talking about…
HMPRESENTLY: Adventuring Across the Rubicon
If you could get peoples’ synapses to wrap around some nifty new service, or product, or, perhaps, a company’s good deeds, that was some seriously satisfying adventuring…
HMPRESENTLY: präpəˈɡandə and kəˈpriSHisnəs
The 45th president doesn’t cotton much to journalists, unless they’re with certain media… like some, but not all journalists and commentators, at Fox News…
HMPRESENTLY: A Sharply-Focused Workforce Housing Remedy
What the STR industry is doing, from what I gather, is exacerbating the workforce housing crisis, and changing the character of communities…
HMPRESENTLY: On the Same Page, the Same Day
“Having some disagreement is normal. It is real, it is human. And it’s an opportunity for us as mature beings to work through it….”
HMPRESENTLY: Banishing the Traitors
Or maybe it was juntas, in other parts of the world, where folks, saying things that authoritarian rulers didn’t like, were left out in the cold — were banished — so to speak….
HMPRESENTLY: When PR Becomes HA-HA
“We’re raising awareness of the company’s products and services,” we’d say. And when the term ‘brand image’ became popular, we’d talk about raising awareness of that, too…
HMPRESENTLY: Fleeing to a Better Place
Fleeing from an authoritarian regime, so many decades ago, that dear gentleman and his siblings knew all too well about that, perhaps…
HMPRESENTLY: Bandying About… or Brass Tacks?
If you stormed the nation’s Capitol building last January 6th, you’re being described as a “patriot,” by a number of people in politics…
HMPRESENTLY: A Little Peek-a-Boo… and Smooching, Too
You know that TV series, The Bachelor? There’s a spinoff for seniors, in the works….