UNCONVENTIONAL THINKING BLOG

At one point in my life, I found myself locked in a form of living hell. I don’t really know how I wound up there, or why, but there I was, listening to music, drinking beer and trying to cope with the darkness of it all.

In conversations over lunch, in media interviews, in discussions with so many with whom I come in contact over the course of a business day, I find myself–for the first time in my life– having to defend America.

Today’s Unconventional Thinking blog post is my 200th! To commemorate this milestone, I’m giving away 2 signed copies of my Top 10 bestseller, “Your Marketing Sucks.”

When I was a young man, I was asked to fight in Viet Nam. I wasn’t afraid and I didn’t have any life plans that would get in the way. But I didn’t believe in the war and so I was at a crossroads.

But I took the two subway tokens the Army sent me, reported to Ft. Hamilton in Brooklyn, went through my physical, prepared to fly into the war zone.

The other night, I heard a Columbia University professor bashing capitalists as greedy pigs the nation would be wise to banish from our shores.

Does he know they created the endowment that pay his salary? Does he care? Should we confuse him with the facts?