On Bullshit

An excellent topic. This book just discusses a possible genesis of the term bullshit and the variety of meanings and uses.

Anyway, it was amusing and short.

How to Win Friends & Influence People

This is probably the most widely read book on this topic, it's a classic by Dale Carnegie. The information is helpful.

On Rumors

Pretty interesting book on the source of rumors and how to mitigate the long term effects - being that once the rumor starts and gains momentum the rumor becomes pretty valid.

Author was a Harvard Law Professor.

long past stopping

The author is Oran Canfield the son of Jack Canfield author of the Chicken Soup series. Well, whatever Jack was teaching did not work on Oran.

This book is like several others where the author is relating his addiction to addictive drugs - kind of an endless loop that got boring. His life is an interesting story of being placed in one non-parental environment after another.

This somewhat gives basis to my thought that you are born with certain characteristics and left to your own devices these characteristics will play out to their fullest potential. This guy has a weak character and it played out.

The Good The Bad and the Forgiven

Short read - 153 pages, 85 pages about this mobster and the rest on his journey to God; yeah, this was a gift from one of your mother's friends. This fellow was a guest minister at the church they go to, so her friend bought several books and gave one to me - through your mother.

Interestingly, the guy says he was producing $8M per week in illicit enterprises; that's impressive.

This Time is Different

Um, O.K., the truth is that all our high powered leaders are idiots prone to the same idiocy as the normal folk. Professor Rogoff, et al advocate the IMF as the international watch dog relying on governements to be transparent in their financial dealings. O.K., transparent is one thing, but truthful is entirely another.

Data after the fact is different from reported data during an episode. There appears to be no doubt that even in the face of qualifying data the leaders make choices that go against the logic of history. But, when the data is faulty in its inception there is no chance to make appropriate decisions.

Veritas - a great concept rarely followed. Let's you and I follow it.