Boy, I screwed that one up. I’m not taking back anything I wrote, it’s just that I really wanted to talk about politics and I was afraid I’d overload you and… Today Stories’ song “What Comes After” started playing in my head… I’ll get to the song, but the set-up is… I’m numb, I don’t […]

It’s frustrating to watch friends and family post pictures of themselves at the protests knowing that it will make little to no difference. They’re all very proud, posting their selfies with their super clever homemade signs. It feels like they’re doing it more for their own internet clout than making any real change. But I also know […]

You start at the end and you work your way back. 1 I first learned this from Sam Perlmutter, my one and only legal boss. Sam started off at a defense firm, but it could not contain his personality, so then he went independent. He was a renegade, with his own vision. And he wasn’t […]

I’m sure they made the participants feel good, but they didn’t move the needle an iota. This is what happens when old school people employ old school methods and expect the same result they got fifty or sixty years ago. The reason the anti-Vietnam protests had an impact, to the degree they even did, was […]