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The Monday Morning Memo

FrankSentThis_Oct10_17

Erik was commenting, of course, on Jeff’s question from last week, below.

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The Rainbow and the Woodster

A Monday Morning Memo from 2003 Until recently, I always assumed that rainbows disappeared from sight long before they touched the earth and that searching for the end of the rainbow was nothing more than a game for the gullible. Or that if they did touch the earth, that the rainbow moved with the viewer, […]

Is There a Right Way to Criticize?

The statesman, according to Wikipedia, “who is often regarded as the father of modern conservatism,” was Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797). I was unaware of this until I stumbled upon it while searching for the origin of the famous statement, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” […]

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Let’s Create an Ad Campaign! Feb, 7-9, 2017

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ECCLESIASTES 3:11  KJ21 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time. Also He hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. ASV He hath made everything beautiful in its time: also he hath set eternity in their […]

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Fiction or Nonfiction?

Nonfiction is a False Category

Science is the study of objective reality. Art is the study of subjective reality. Electromagnetic waves exist regardless of whether you perceive them. They are nonfiction. But colors exist only in subjective reality, as a result of transformations provided by our senses. They are fiction. Likewise, chemicals dissolved in air or water exist in objective reality, nonfiction. But […]

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This is a moment from the 1953 Disney movie Peter Pan, painted in recent years by the amazingly talented Timna Woollard

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This is the complete story in The New York Times. You can read a summary below.  

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Dr. Michael Hurd says, “People say this all the time: ‘I know, intellectually, that such-and-such is true. But I don’t feel it.’ The next question is usually, ‘How can I make myself feel it?’ This is what reasonable people often expect a psychotherapist to do for them. Unfortunately, it doesn’t quite work that way. The […]

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Near the “Witch Hunt” zenith of a “WE” cycle – which is where we are right now – the Right will go too far right and the Left will go too far left. Below are a few excerpts from an op-ed written by Lionel Shriver published in The New York Times, September 23, 2016, Will […]

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win-the-heart-and-the-mind-will-follow is a PDF that glimpses how an ad campaign is different than a series of ads.

Win the Heart and the Mind Will Follow

Science is the study of objective reality. Art is the study of subjective reality. We’ve spoken of this before, but I think we need a refresher: Electromagnetic waves exist regardless of whether you perceive them. They are nonfiction. But colors exist in subjective reality, as a result of transformations provided by our senses. Colors are fiction. Likewise, chemicals […]

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This is the end of the “safe” zone of the rabbit hole. Venture beyond this BeagleSword and you will likely become unsettled. I have warned you. – Indy.

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Fictional Characters in Advertising

Norman Rockwell was an illustrator of fiction. He never showed us America as it really was, but America as it could have been, should have been, might have been. His images caused an entire generation to vividly remember experiences we never had. Rockwell showed my generation a fictional America and we believed in it. I […]

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At $47, they’re expensive to be sure, but they’re extremely very cool. I’ll take you to Amazon.

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Elizabeth won $2,000!  Happy-Happy.

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Luke Devlin won $3,000!  Happy-Happy-Happy!

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This is the first Pendulum interview between Roy H. Williams and Glenn Beck, September 2016.

Photography with Donato Di Camillo

Read the whole story and see the photos at Upworthy.com

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