© 2009 and 2013, the Institute for Applied Common Sense In the world of social commentary, there are “observers” and “critics.” People ...

© 2011 and 2013, the Institute for Applied Common Sense We once generated a post, Where Have You Gone Joe DiMaggio? At the time, we felt...

© 2011 and 2013, the Institute for Applied Common Sense For several weeks now, the American (and perhaps international) viewing public ha...

We previously attempted to explore the issues of deceit and truthfulness in the context of the Mark McGwire steroid use story. More recent...

© 2011 and 2013, the Institute for Applied Common Sense We considered calling this piece, What Would Dr. King Do? , or What Would Dr. Kin...

Today, we received an e-mail from the New York Times indicating that the House of Representatives had rejected an effort to increase the f...

© 2012, the Institute for Applied Common Sense There are two things we do religiously, neither of which has anything to do with religion....

© 2012, the Institute for Applied Common Sense According to some, those of us who are Baby Boomers are far better "educated" a...

© 2012, the Institute for Applied Common Sense Believe it or not, we actually drafted this piece before NBC’s Bob Costa had to do a spin...

The following is taken from an article in the August 13 and 20, 2012 issue of Newsweek Magazine. It was written by Susan Cheever. ...