From Bill O’Reilly’s Culture Wars:  There is a new study by the Josephsen Institute out of LA ….

• 42% high school kids lie to save money.
• 64% cheat on tests
• 93% say they are fine with it, they do not see a problem. They are feel that they are better than everyone else is

So …. is bad behavior justifying more bad behavior? Is our culture worse, or are the kids worse? Do our up-and-coming (more…)

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — A Dutch woman who was the oldest person in the world when she died at age 115 in 2005 appeared sharp right up to the end, joking that pickled herring was the secret to her longevity.

Scientists say that Henrikje van Andel-Schipper’s mind was probably as good as it seemed: a post-mortem analysis of her brain revealed few signs of Alzheimer’s or other diseases commonly associated with a decline in mental ability in old age…

Asked what advice she would give to people who want to live a long time, she once quipped: “Keep breathing.”

You have a long time to learn how to communicate effectively …. Begin now!

Recently Stephen King said this:

I don’t want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don’t, then you’ve got, the Army, Iraq, I don’t know, something like that. It’s, it’s not as bright. So, that’s my little commercial for that.

When asked about this statement by the Bangor Daily News, Mr. King ended his response with “…of course we all support the troops.”

Nearly 100% of our courageous soldiers have a high school education, and many are trained specifically for high tech duties and responsibilities.

Mr. King, I say to you: it isn’t what you said, it’s what we think we heard.

Listening to The O’Reilly Report tonight where Bernard Goldberg and Jane Hall debated on whether NBC was hard on Senators Clinton and Obama in the democratic debate last night. I missed the debates because I was facilitating my on-line Organizational Leadership class, so I have no opinion that I (more…)