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Should Business and Politics Mix?

Posted on March 22, 2017 by tomdwyer

One of our clients didn’t think so, but here’s Tom’s view… When a client recently asked about our “#NotNormal-RESIST!” bumper stickers, we told her they “were in protest of the new administrations irregular behaviour”. It didn’t sit well. “Politics has … Continue reading →

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Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes!

Posted on January 11, 2017 by tomdwyer

Greetings! Conventional wisdom says practice makes perfect, but the first week of the Trump Presidency proved conventional wisdom wrong. The Trump Campaign was a cesspool of documented, provable lies, big and small, consistently, on every subject imaginable, but this week’s … Continue reading →

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Tom’s Tidbits- Can the Mail save Representative Democracy?

Posted on November 8, 2016 by tomdwyer

Aristotle saw two ways of maintaining societies with great wealth discrepancies: either reduce the inequality or reduce democracy. By and large he thought reducing inequality and increasing participation (except, of course, for the poor, women and slaves) was the better … Continue reading →

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Tom’s Tidbits- Trump may be smart, but we need to be smarter.

Posted on September 29, 2016 by tomdwyer

Greetings! They say that when you point one finger, three more point back at you. With that in mind I’d like to talk about three seemingly unrelated events… the Clinton/Trump debate, the ongoing criminality of Wells Fargo bank, and the … Continue reading →