Riffs, Tiffs and What Ifs

We've moved to a new site - WritingRiffs.com Appreciate you checking this article out at WritingRiffs.com . We'll be deleting all the content on this site over the next few weeks. Thanks! Steve This is a response to the "I'm not an American" blog post by Robert Scoble, a "tech-geek blogger" and Managing Director at Fast Company.TV . Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Everyone has the right to express that opinion under the auspices of free speech protected by the First Amendment to the US Constitution. It's a given ... in America. Robert Scoble is an influential, self-proclaimed "tech-geek blogger" and Managing Director at Fast Company.TV. Today, after exercising his right to free speech with the "I'm Not an American" blog post, Scoble did a snake-belly slinky over to his Twitter Synchophant Turfdom and complained about all the "HATERS" who uh -had the audacity to disagree with his low opinion of Ame...

We've moved to a new site - WritingRiffs.com Appreciate you checking this article out at WritingRiffs.com . We'll be deleting all the content on this site over the next few weeks. Thanks! Steve He was charming. Reckless. Brilliant. Rash. Kind and callous. Vicious and violent Yet gentle and a gentleman. Prayed on his knees but cussed like a sailor. His men called him “Old Blood and Guts." When Life Was Worth Less Than Zero This complex man, commanding and savagely fighting during the murderous madness of World War II, when life was worth less than zero, believed himself to be a warrior of old. Of other times. Other places. Many times - many places. He thought about it. Spoke about it. Wrote about it. But hardly anyone remembers ... lost to another time, another place. Magnetic. Majestic. His poem, "Through A Glass Darkly," is an amazing testament to and from a warrior. Each time I read it I marvel at the complex sagacity and intellectual magnificence of this...

We've moved to a new site - WritingRiffs.com Appreciate you checking this article out at WritingRiffs.com . We'll be deleting all the content on this site over the next few weeks. Thanks! Steve Catchy title. Metaphoric meaning built in. Good, bad, storytellers, business. Has a ring to it. Readily understood titles like “saints” and “sorry sad sacks.” I was going to add "Steve" to the title, but it just didn't ring the bell well. Besides what rhymes with sorry sad sacks, saints, storytellers and Steve? Wait a minute. "Dr. E" rhymes with Steve. And Dr. "E" and Steve are going to have a go at Saints, Sorry Sad Sacks and Storytellers in business. Who is Dr "E?" Dr. Elliot McGucken received a B.A. in physics from Princeton and a Ph.D. in physics from UNC Chapel Hill where his dissertation on an artificial retina for the blind received several NSF grants and a Merrill Lynch Innovations Award. The retina-chip research appeared in publicatio...