About that problem on the planet he’d mentioned, and his hopes for the future…
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: Owies… and the Fog and Folly of War
But soldiers are supposed to be tough, you know…
HMPRESENTLY: Love in a Sometimes Opprobrious World
One thing that isn’t getting stigmatized, right around Valentine’s Day, is candy…
HMPRESENTLY: So Stimulating!
Those old downtown buildings… I’d just stand there, gazing at them, totally transfixed. They were so svelte…
HMPRESENTLY: Groupthink… and Groupdo, too?
Even in social media, focusing on business, and on business people, and people seeking to have some role in business, there’s groupthink…
HMPRESENTLY: Pulling Nails Out of Walls
To be fair to downtown LA, there’s also some interesting architecture out there nowadays, but this was years ago when the comedian was poking fun at LA’s downtown area…
HMPRESENTLY: All Jargoned Out?
How many times, do you suppose, would you have to click down on a tally counter, to count the number of times someone is saying the word ‘disgraceful?’
HMPRESENTLY: Getting Pelted and Belted by… Beliefs?
When religions imbue people with goodness, hope and love, that’s something to be thankful for…
HMPRESENTLY: Rebranding Places… and Other Unusual Goings-On
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…
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…