by Bruce Turkel | May 31, 2011 | Uncategorized
During the last days of 2010 Barack Obama changed Federal tax law. In a stunning political role reversal, Republicans supported the President’s package while Democrats opposed it. You might remember that the President’s deal included a renewal of expiring...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
Some revolutions start with a bang. “The shot heard ‘round the world” is how Ralph Waldo Emerson waxed poetic about the opening salvos of the American Revolution at the battles of Lexington and Concord. About 135 years later, “The shot heard ‘round the world” was used...
by Bruce Turkel | Jul 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
After almost every punch line, a googly-eyed, sweating Rodney Dangerfield would tug at his tie and utter his famous line, “Awww, I don’t get no respect.” Seems to me the entire travel and tourism industry could do the same thing. Tourism is a trade that...
by Bruce Turkel | Jun 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
First Helen Thomas negates years of courageous presidential interviews with her anti-Semitic outbursts and now Michael Jordan wears a Hitler moustache in a Hanes commercial? What is wrong with these people? Don’t they know that the suggestion of prejudice is not...
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
From my friend and frequent guest blogger Owen Frager: One of our first thoughts after last night’s debate: who owns JoeThePlumber.com? Turns out it’s the domain name of plumber Joe Francis in Amarillo, TX, and it turns out everyone else has had the same...
