Hold on to your coffee cup. We have identified the endangered species known as bipartisan consensus in America. You thought that we would never see it again. Yet, amazingly, consensus is forming on two key issues. The first should be no surprise, having been self-evident all along. But now that the Republican…
I know the place: the place where bullets flew and blood flowed the other day, where TV crews set up their trucks for one more gruesome body count. I know that place. It’s called America. For those caught up in the moment – fixated as the media are on the most recent “breaking…
A tried-and-true advertising concept is a technique called myth analysis. In it, the marketer establishes a narrative that has nothing to do with the product, but which sticks in the minds of consumers. It applies to beer and beach volleyball, GEICO and geckos, Budweiser and Clydesdales, AFLAC and a duck. It applies as well to…
Someone explain why Republicans like Don Coram are so hard to find. You’ll have to travel all the way to Montrose, Colo., to find him, unless he’s in the Colorado state Capitol. There the state representative recently encountered frustration with fellow Republicans on something you’d think every person of any persuasion would support: fewer…