Claiming false medals is demeaning

By rickColosimo / August 2, 2009 /

A recent NYT article discussed the rash of false medals/military honors since the long war on terror has greatly increased the number of “everyday” people with some plausible wartime service. (For example, I recently met an in-house attorney with JetBlue who was in the Army National Guard during law school and then deployed to Iraq.…

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Zero-based: use HARO efficiently with filters

By rickColosimo / July 15, 2009 / Comments Off on Zero-based: use HARO efficiently with filters

Peter Shankman‘s HARO (Help A Reporter Out) service is extremely valuable, but his opportunity-packed three emails a day can be hard to review in a timely fashion and risk getting bypassed if you have a big incoming stream of email. Because the content is time-sensitive, putting them off to read like a newsletter is self-defeating,…

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trendwatching.com: FOREVERISM

By rickColosimo / June 21, 2009 / Comments Off on trendwatching.com: FOREVERISM

trendwatching.com’s June 2009 Trend Briefing covering FOREVERISM. I like the trendwatching briefings: they’re actually insightful rather than wishful thinking; they seek to recognize trends rather than create them. (I’ve always wondered about that particular issue in the fashion world — do designers discover hot colors or try to make a color hot?) In this discussion…

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Vaccines — why are ASD parents still fighting?

By rickColosimo / June 4, 2009 / Comments Off on Vaccines — why are ASD parents still fighting?

I will not claim to speak for any parents other than me, not even my ex-wife. There is little doubt that part of the quick rejection of vaccine causation for Dylan’s regressive ASD onset was my ex’s science background (she was a Ph.D. developmental biologist with a family history full of medical professionals) and my…

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