Author: Doug Brown

What a month!  Seems everywhere we look there are records being set.  The Dow freefalls for 10 days, then enjoys a record one-day spike, only to dump again.  Congress approves a record setting bailout bill worth $700 b-b-b-billion.  We’ve got record layoffs, record foreclosures, worldwide chaos…even my beloved Cubbies set a post-season record for the fastest … Continue reading Setting records…

by Doug Brown TALK to me, please.  Turn off the teleprompter, close the notebook, put the index cards in your pocket, and TALK to me.  After more than a year of listening to the presidential candidates, I still have dozens of lingering questions, and one simple request…stop READING to me, please.  Just TALK to me. Mahatma Gandhi … Continue reading TALK to me…

By now, many of you have heard the story of Paul Potts – the mobile phone salesman turned opera star. I first heard of him several months ago, when I received a YouTube clip of Mr. Potts arriving at an audition for Britain’s Got Talent, the UK’s answer to American Idol. While it first appears … Continue reading “What are YOU here for today?”