Nice Guys Finish First!

I was wondering if anyone else was struck by the incredible paradox created by this past week’s two top news stories.  In one story we were tormented by – or treated to (depending upon one’s viewpoint) – the barrage of news coverage on Charlie Sheen’s life of debauchery and grandiose self-delusion that is being played out on television [...]

I don’t know if anyone else reading USA Today this past week found the same irony as I did within the December 8th sports section.  In that issue, USA Today ran a full feature story regarding the enormous salaries of NCAA football coaches, listing the total compensation of dozens of big-time college football programs, and [...]

I can’t help but marvel at the power of the human language.  Arguably, there is no greater force on this earth than that of the spoken and written word.  There is no machinery, no weaponry, no technology which can achieve what words have been able to achieve.  Even the humbling forces of nature have a [...]

The questions started out innocently enough.  I had a long car ride ahead of me with a couple of 13-year-old boys to a travel hockey game.  I figured I’d help pass some of the time by asking a few dumb questions.  If nothing else, I would gain some insight into the current teenage perspective on pop [...]

The notion of reciprocity has been around since the dawn of mankind.  But I think my wife has taken its modern-day interpretation a bit too far. We all know what reciprocity means; you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.  Or - since I started out with a reference to primitive man – you nitpick my back and I’ll [...]

“Nice guys finish last.” It’s an expression we’ve all heard. The phrase is such a fixture in the American language that it carries the aura of some irrefutable law of nature; a statement of undeniable, inarguable fact that is no less certain than the law of gravity or the inevitability of death and taxes. How [...]

There’s no use putting it off. I have a message to deliver. And it’s the 21st century. My message is that Nice Guys CAN Finish First (contrary to popular and cynical beliefs). And I now realize that if I’m going to get that message out (or apparently any message out, for that matter) I’m going [...]