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High Crimes and Misdemeanors?

December 10, 2018 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 5 Comments

I had the opportunity a few weeks ago to attend a Salon series. No, not a séance (Random House, the publisher, called the event a ‘Big idea’s Night’.) This (A Conversation with the Authors of, “IMPEACHMENT: An American History”) was an “intimate conversation with writers”- in particular, two of the four authors of Impeachment: An American History. The authors were Jon Meacham, Jeffrey Engel, Peter Baker, and Timothy Naftali. Except only the latter two were present for the discussion.

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Just Because

Can you hear me now?

December 7, 2018 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 21 Comments

I have often said that the Tora explains not only how Man acknowledges the existence of the Supreme Being- but of the Supreme Being accommodating itself to living with the frailty of Man. (I just mentioned this yesterday!)

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Brain, Technology

Don’t confuse me with the facts. My mind is made up!

October 16, 2017 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 16 Comments

I admit it. I am one of those folks who engages in political discourse all the time. And, with folks from every aisle. (It’s no longer appropriate to claim there are only two aisles- since the GOP is split into at least five factions and the Democrats into at least two. Plus, there are fringe elements that are not represented in our government. Thankfully!)

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Technology

Amorality

February 10, 2015 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A.

I am getting pretty tired of folks abandoning logic. They listen to “facts” that are clearly malarkey – but because they desperately want to live in a make-believe world, they aver them to be true.

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Brands Count!

November 4, 2014 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A.

Yesterday, I told you to vote. No, I didn’t ask you. I meant it- it’s your civic duty. I had a close friend who never voted for decades. Yet, he felt free to bitch and moan about what was happening. I made it clear that if he did nothing, he agreed with whatever results ensued- and had no right to complain. It’s his job to vote- and make sure change can occur.

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Economy, Just Because, Taxes

It’s not what I do…It’s what I say

January 14, 2013 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 14 Comments

Love him or hate him, Frank Luntz is a wordsmith par excellence. This Republican consultant spends his time concocting words that evoke good feelings- despite the misgivings one may have for the principles that lie beneath the words. He asserts (correctly, in my opinion, as it applies to the American electorate) that “80 percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think”. Continue reading It’s not what I do…It’s what I say →

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