UNCONVENTIONAL THINKING BLOG

The Coen Brothers’ 2009 film, “A Serious Man,” is built around the 1967 Jefferson Airplane classic, “Somebody To Love. ”

It is a typical Coen Brothers’ tangled story of despair, masterfully executed and focused on a Big Bang epiphany that all of the most cherished truths, vaunted seers and wise men are about as smart and right with their theories of life — as a village idiot.

Everything beautiful is inconsistent.

The first time I set my eyes on the lady from Madrid, she was, I believed, just the latest of a long line of celluloid sirens who waltz through our lives, light up the silver screen, fade from the headlines and surface again as aged queens of joint relief infomercials.

I was light years off base.

There is a strange, perplexing and mysterious math to life.
Think of it as lifematics.
We can begin with the fact that virtually all human life has a span of one to one hundred years. Some live for seconds, others a century. But we are all enclosed within a mathematical box that begins and ends within a [...]

Everyone knows Bernie Madoff is a putrid excuse for a human being.
But as we are hurling verbal stones at him, we should stop and see that what he did and how he did it, is ingenious.
More than anything else, Madoff was a marketing whiz. He wasn’t a financial engineer, he was a mastermind of perception.
And [...]