Let me say this about that. If you have never worked outside the U.S., let me tell you that the most difficult part is not the strange food, the odd customs, the living conditions, or lax security.  It’s communication.  Even when your local contacts speak English, that doesn’t necessarily mean that there is real “communication” […]

Let me say this about that. America is wallpapered in warning labels.  A guy from another planet could beam-down to Earth and be forgiven if he believed that doing anything on this planet could be hazardous to one’s health.  The really silly part of this ‘lawyer-propagated’ blemish on our culture is that we are ‘warned’ […]

Let me say this about that. A few years ago, there was a big flap about the lack of political correctness in the Florida State University’s use of the “Seminole” as it’s mascot.  Seemed some folks thought it lacked sensitivity and was disrespectful of the poor Seminole Indian tribes in Florida.  Unfortunately, the chalky white, […]

Let me say this about that. My wife and I were in London last year for a short vacation.  To avoid traffic, we took the subway downtown for a little sightseeing.  While waiting on the subway platform, I was approached by a uniformed policeman who gave me a stern warning: Cop:  “Sir, you are forbidden to […]

Let me say this about that. The LMSTAT blog has only been published for a couple of months, but it only took a couple of days before we started getting responses from other countries.  Germany, Switzerland, Greece, a few Arabic countries, and Russia – especially Russia.  You don’t see most of these responses, either because they are sent to me […]

Let me say this about that. I’ll just come right out and say it.  I don’t get country music.  I realize it’s wildly popular, but have you ever listened to the lyrics of this drivel?         “I miss you baby but my aim is gettin’ better.”              “She got the goldmine and I got the shaft.” Not […]

Let me say this about that. Just as with any other profession, out there somewhere is the world’s worst doctor.  Now, with most professions, being the worst is merely an annoyance.  Take car salesmen for example: Car salesman:  “Good morning sir.  What can I do to get you to buy a car – today?” Customer:  “Do […]

Let me say this about that. If you’ve read the “About” tab in the upper left corner of this page, you know that before I retired, I was an engineer.  Now engineers are notoriously good at math and equally as bad at  communication.  So after I retired, I vowed to work on improving my skills in the […]

Let me say this about that. In my post on July 19 entitled  “Pharmaceutical Ads” , I suggested that pharmaceutical companies were making up new diseases just to sell their drugs.  Since that post, I have been inundated with rebuttals by my loyal readership claiming that I have not done sufficient research into the subject.  To prove their point, […]

Let me say this about that. American poet James Riley is credited with creating the so-called “duck test” when he wrote: “If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, you probably got yourself a duck.”  Riley, who died in 1916, worried about the overuse of weasel-words decades before […]