A friend of mine sent me a great article by Amanda Hess that was recently in the New York Times, "How to Escape Your Political Bubble for a Clearer View". Hess refers to a filter bubble that describes the tendency of social networks like Facebook and Twitter to lock users into personalized feedback loops, each with … Continue reading Do You Live in a Bubble? Take This Quiz →

Last night, along with my son, I attended my first meeting as a member of the Citizens Police Academy (CPA) of Radnor Township, Class 2017-03. Here's a description of the program from the Radnor web site: The CPA is a program designed to provide participants with a working knowledge of the Radnor Township Police Department. This … Continue reading Who Knows, I Could Be the Barney Fife of My Hometown →

Most of the Snickers Bars commercials I could take or leave, but I found the most recent one to be quite funny. This one involves a doctor who's made a careless mistake (one that is apparently more common than I would have thought), because he was hungry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj3bPVC1_4c If this situation were ever to happen … Continue reading You’re Careless When You’re Hungry →

I read Seth Godin's blog every day (along with Fred Wilson's and David Kanigan's), and while I usually pick up something useful from each of Seth's posts, some days his words seem to be a bit more poignant.. That was the case with his post from a few days ago titled, "It doesn't sound like … Continue reading That’s Not Like You (with credit to Seth Godin) →

From a blogging perspective, it's one of my favorite days of the month. It's the day that Granted arrives in my inbox. Every month, Adam Grant, professor of psychology at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and best-selling author, releases a newsletter called Granted that shares both some of the research he is … Continue reading If Facts Won’t Change Our Mind, What Will? →

I'm not sure how this one slipped past me, but March 4 was National Grammar Day. National Grammar Day was established in 2008 by Martha Brockenbrough, author of "Things That Make Us [Sic]" (2008) and founder of the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar. It's a good-natured observance where people share tips about how to … Continue reading I Missed It! Saturday Was National Grammar Day! →

The Pennsylvania Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority (IFPA) uses a somewhat unique approach to combating insurance fraud. The agency has created a series of videos that offer re-enactments of actual insurance fraud cases. On its YouTube channel titled "See How They Lie", the videos have names like: Desperate in Doylestown Rotten In Reading Boneheaded in Bethlehem … Continue reading Pennsylvania’s Idiots, Liars, & Losers →

I always look forward to seeing what message is inside my fortune cookies. Today's was a little disheartening though, but at least it's going to lead to a very short blog post, and I think my classes are going to become a lot shorter as well. Here's the fortune: "It is better not to speak … Continue reading My Latest Fortune Cookie →