The Koch brothers lost this Presidential election to the Mercer family, but they won plenty of House and Senate seats to make sure their bidding gets done. The master puppeteers who pull all the strings behind the screen hold a truly dark view of America and the...
Understand Trump’s Take On ‘Citizen Kane’ And You Understand The Man
Donald Trump's favorite film is Citizen Kane by Orson Welles. Don has good taste in films. Or so it seems. Citizen Kane is about an all-powerful man (modeled in part on William Randolph Hearst) who owns a chain of newspapers. He lives in a gigantic tower safely...
There’s A Time For Campfire Songs; This Isn’t The Time
Don Trump the pussy grabber is President-Elect of the United States. How did this happen, and what do we do now? My friend Charlie Quirk—an Aussie who works as a brand strategist in San Francisco—made a good post this morning dealing with the “How” question. Here’s an...
Disruption Can Be Good, But Distrust Is Poison.
We are one week from election day 2016. The American experiment appears to be teetering on a precipice. While this is at once frightening and disturbing, I believe we’re living through a necessary disturbance in the system. Binary systems are breaking down. Industries...
The Don Wants Free Americans Under His Under-Sized Thumb
It pains me to admit that Donald Trump, a.k.a. The Don, knows more about the inner workings of today's monolithic media companies than his opponent. But he does. From experience, he knows that big media favors entertainment over news and sensationalism over facts....