Author Archives: jameshpyle

Watching pundits react to last month’s election reminds me of a particularly prescient verse. (Sorry for the lack of attribution, but I cannot recall who first wrote it.) I’m confounded by how often love trumps truth when it comes to … Continue reading →

Following is my letter to the editor of the New York Times responding to David Brooks’ column today on Trump’s election.  I post it here knowing full well you won’t ever see it in their newspaper. Re: David Brooks’ column … Continue reading →

One of the more controversial accusations being hurled during this election cycle is that Trump supporters are less erudite and less intellectual than Clinton supporters.  Deplorable, Uneducated, Intellectually inferior, unrefined. (Pick your adjective(s).) Being a deplorable moron, I looked up … Continue reading →

As a writer, I refer almost daily to a little reference book titled: The Elements of Style by Wm. Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White.  Whatever one is writing, this little book is the closest thing to a Bible for guidance … Continue reading →

FAMOUS QUOTES   –  (Stolen from Graham Moore’s novel LAST DAYS OF NIGHT.) Steve Jobs – People don’t know what they want until you show it to them. We’re not going to be the first at this party, but we’re going … Continue reading →

Okay, I’m a conspiracy theorist. I admit it, but. . .  My past theories that have been proven sound: Bankers are in the midst of a purposeful takeover of the country (possibly the world). Class action lawyers are venal money … Continue reading →

Am I the only one with empathy towards the police these days? I respect cops for the thankless job they do protecting the public, often putting their own lives at risk to protect law abiding citizens. Recent news coverage of … Continue reading →

I was always a pretty healthy kid; usual childhood diseases like measles, mumps, chicken pox etc. but never any serious illness. My parents led me to believe that doctors were right up there with God and Stan Musial: all knowing … Continue reading →

A few years back (okay, maybe decades – I lose track) my friend Gordon posed a question: “Do we prefer an active incompetent or an inactive incompetent?”  At the time we were considering two investor groups for a start-up company … Continue reading →

Like  those hordes of locusts (or cicadas) that appear every thirteen or sixteen years, the national discussions/debates about race relations are again front and center in social and professional news circles, triggered by events in Ferguson, Chicago, Baltimore and Dallas. … Continue reading →