I'm working on a new book called "The Bully Protocol: Political Strategies for the Amoral and Ambitious."
The chapter I'm outlining right now is called "The Bully Flip" which discusses the complicated but effective strategy of bullying people by claiming to be a victim of bullying. In the business we call it the "NRA Gambit."
This cry-baby-bully strategy takes us to strange places. I had a five hour meeting last week with an undisclosed lobby that wants to paint an aging hippie, town council candidate as a fertilizer-shamer because she once wrote an effusive blog post about composting. Her prize winning peonies are a danger to us all.
It is telling how frightened big fish are of little fish.
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Light moves so slowly. An offending bumper sticker skitters by on the asphalt river. By the time this indignity slams your visual cortex an...
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My sister Carla is a renowned linguist and widely published researcher. She works for a car dealership megastore based in Portland. She beli...
