Jeff Rusinow

See that little speck of an airplane in this photo? Well, it’s actually Air Force One, and it is carrying George Bush after Barack’s Inauguration, heading back to Texas. Brent took it from the 14th St. Bridge as we were walking back to Virginia after the festivities. Tomorrow, when I reflect on [...]

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Throughout my previous 25 year career in retailing, I have experienced the constant change within the retail industry with the rise and stall and fall of new concepts, all part of the Darwinian process that has included mergers, consolidations and bankruptcies. Survival of the fittest.
Whenever I’m traveling, I am forever a student of retail. [...]

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This past week’s election in South Africa has prompted me to make this post.
The first night we arrived in Cape Town this past February, our friend Judy Mayotte had organized a dinner at a local restaurant with about 25 of her friends to celebrate Barack’s election. We brought along assorted campaign items — buttons, pins, [...]

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Of all the things we did last week in LA, the most fun for me was spending a couple of hours on the set of HBO’s “Entourage.”  We weren’t allowed to take pictures of the cast or of the ’set’, which happened to be at a home in the Hollywood hills (all I’ll divulge is [...]

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And then Sharon Osbourne yells from the passenger seat in a Prius that drives by….

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Last night after Dancing with the Stars we went to the premiere of “The Soloist” at Paramount Studios.  You get a real appreciation of how crazy the paparazzi are with celebrities like Halle Berry (who is not in the movie), even when they’re on the red carpet:

Picture on Huffington Post today (who is the guy [...]

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I bought the Flip Mino HD a few months back before we went to the Inauguration and Africa, and I am just getting around to posting my first video.  This one was when we were on ATV’s riding on the dunes of Namibia:

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Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com has completed an incredibly thorough, city by city estimate of attendees at all of the FoxNews and Freedom Watch promoted Tea Bag Parties.  311,000 people.  In a country with over 300,000,000 people.  After all that hype.  That’s the best Fox can do?
What part of  ”Everyone making over $250,000, representing over 95% [...]

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I was skimming through Politico tonight and came across a video interview of the head of the Republican gay group Log Cabin:
 http://www.politico.com/singletitlevideo.html?bcpid=1155201977&bctid=20039951001
I mean, if you were coming from another planet and listened to this, you’d shake your head and say:  how could this guy stand in front of a camera and talk about how positive [...]

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This poor old guy was scary; click twice for increasingly larger image:

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