In his book "Ogilvy on Advertising," David Ogilvy said, "If each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants." This quote emphasizes the importance of hiring skilled and capable individuals to achieve great results. Making America great? Au contraire.

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YES! Thank you! I'm so sick of this crap 'Offensive': Senator @whitehouse.senate.gov issues searing takedown of GOP myth in confirmation hearing www.rawstory.com/robert-f-ken...

There is zero excuse for any Democrat to accept unqualified hacks to lead federal executive agencies or departments. Zero. And just to be very clear, @johnfetterman.com I will not give you one more cent and I regret my past support.

A progressive hip hop analysis of wokeness.

To be labeled "woke" by its critics often means one has displayed precisely those qualities that moral philosophy has long considered virtuous: truthfulness, compassion, justice, and moral courage.

Who let out the criminals from prison into America? Donald Trump of course.

I have often suggested that cats are really another form of liquid, and now Scientific American has an article about just that! www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-...

Reality, Facts and Truth are essential tools in the toolbox of real visionaries. Many of today's so-called visionaries seem to buy into any second-rate fantasy and thereby relinquish those powerful tools still available to actual visionaries.

The essay celebrates the potential of prompts to inspire and guide us toward new ideas. This is a podcast of the essay. soundcloud.com/mrwondrous/l...

This is not disruption. This is destruction.

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde will be @maddow.msnbc.com 's guest tonight at 9pm ET on MSNBC!

Ovid's Metamorphoses, with a new beginning performed virtually by young master Wondrous from little league days as a budding Wiccan (Wican).

EVERY. SINGLE. WORD. 🔥🔥🔥

In "100 Years of Solitude", ice appears as an object of pure wonder - a crystalline miracle that transforms the tropical world of Macondo. Today, for many, ICE inspires dread, fear & division.

davidbeckwith.substack.com/p/the-second... You are the corn and the beans and the taters... Face it.

Instead of the billionaire club's clout rubbing off on their greatest of life's mistakes, it is exactly the other way around. The damage he has already done is on their heads and that place where a heart should have been...as will be all that going forward. I mean backward.

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True is the sixteenth studio album by former Yes lead singer Jon Anderson. It is a collaboration with the Band Geeks that was released on 23 August 2024 by Frontiers Records.

Mr. Lieu does his homework, and it shows. Let he be a light and a lesson on the importance of paying attention to detail.

Wisdom for an age where it is lacking.

youtu.be/aJc-BW-udJI?... Music to rinse out the ears.

"When America sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with them. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. And some, I assume, are good people." --Greenland

Who thinks this has been a great idea for decades? Russia knew that dividing us is the best weapon for ages.

This is a massive, urgent report. If you read it all and follow all the in-text citations, you will be as anxious as I am right now. Not just America but the world is headed for ruin under the Trump-Musk autocracy we’re now just fourteen days away from. These men aren’t well, and they intend evil.

Here is my response to Donald Trump’s latest malicious lies:

Genius involves a dual intellect: one serving the will, the other objectively observing and mirroring the world, resulting in creative works. This often leading to a solitary life and a lack of worldly success, but providing profound inner fulfillment. soundcloud.com/mrwondrous/s...

Today, as I observe the belligerent forces rising anew, I perceive a deeper existential crisis—a severance of genuine dialogue that binds person to person, and people to peoples.

In striving to compose a single-sentence drabble, one must devote meticulous attention to each individual word, ensuring every precious character earns its place within the meticulously calibrated structure, acknowledging that such constraint fosters an artful balancing act between concision and...

The MeidasTouch Podcast is currently the number 1 live stream in America right now. Join 17k others for the live show now as we break down the news of the day. www.youtube.com/live/wNrFhsL...

Love this photo of John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Muhammad Ali at Jimmy Carter’s inaugural gala.

The looming, fantastical grift of the Musk/Trump presidency depends on a destruction of objective truth, from Wikipedia entries to anti-disinformation research to the Des Moines Register and ABC News. Forget Greenland. This is the real WWIII, for truth My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

Breathing Life Into Politics: How democratic societies might leverage modern “living systems” principles to shape policy.

But Make America Great Again… FOR SOME!

We have now reached the point in the evening where Musk turned into Howard Hughes. Not the 1930s Hughes Aircraft Howard Hughes. I’m talking about the 1967 Howard Hughes holed up on the 9th floor of the Desert Inn in Vegas watching Ice Station Zebra 150 times on a continuous loop.

High above a sea of rolling fog, in the narrow ravines carved by the breath of centuries, rose the hidden monastery of Aen Selûr. Even in hushed twilight, when the swirling mists turned silver, the monastery shimmered like a distant lighthouse guiding travelers who dared ascend.

youtu.be/IHjxgHDWtwY?... King Crimson concert coming up in a minute or so...

Photograph of someone we are not sure we remember

In an era dominated by the muscle-bound machismo of running—all sweat-glistened determination and goal-oriented grimacing—skipping emerged as the rebellious dance of pure, unadulterated joy.

soundcloud.com/mrwondrous/c... Some new stuff.