Alan Weiss' The Uncomfortable Truth

Discussing how we can be of comprehensive help in these times and all times.

Why the Super Bowl has become an almost mindless ritual despite the quality of play on the field.

Why are we afraid of an illness that won't harm most of us but not of an illness that will kill 70,000 of us in the US alone annually?

How a legislature full of multi-term attorneys is killing us and why we should send them out to harvest crops.

Why we back up instead of move forward and what it means to have the courage of your talent.

How the news media and reporters distort fact for drama, trying to make the mundane magnificent.

Why Wayne Gretzky had it right and and the rest of us keep saying, "What the puck?"

Why lies and fabrications stick to our histories like glue, and why we provide the glue.

Our prisons would reflect a depraved society to anyone coming from another world and wondering how we can treat people this way.

Why they're important some of the time only, and the worst, most dangerous critic of all.

Sometimes it's hard to believe what we choose to believe, and here's why.

Why it's negligent not to be ready for the most common responses.

How banks disregard the customer and why they should be run like hospitality organizations.

Those aspects of humanity from which we should all learn some lessons.

Being a description of a place I once tried to avoid and have no need to return to.

Why government intervention in how much a team is allowed to win by may mean The End of Days.

Why capitalism is about the survival of the smartest as exemplified by taxis that no longer stink.

Some people thrive on risk but the addiction can be fatal.

What are inclusion and exclusion really about?

Instead of seeking privilege maybe we need to end it.