Bright Defile

Hello Barack Obama, Dale Folwell, et alii,

I am tabulating a list of all candidates desiring to communicate with me by robocall, or whose representatives do not remove my name and phone number from their contact list on request.

Each robocall for a specific candidate is counted against that candidate. I deduct one point for each robocall.

Each robocall for a specific agenda, platform, or ideology is counted against the party. I decide which party best represents the agenda, platform, or ideology. I deduct one point for each robocall for every candidate from that party.

Each time a candidate calls back after being asked to remove my name and phone number from their contact list, I deduct two points, one for the previous request, and one for the current interruption. I ask every representative to remove my name and phone number from their contact list.

James Dimon, Chief Executive Officer
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
270 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10017-2070

15 November, 2011

I wanted to share with you my recent experience with Durham One Call.

I called at approximately 1500 today to report the sewer grate in front of the old pool house in Duke Park which was broken when the heavy paving equipment was allowed to park on that street. A few days ago, it was broken but could be described as "in place", preventing people from falling into an eighteen inch deep hole in the street. As of two days ago it can no longer be described as "in place", and will not prevent someone from falling into the storm sewer. I have pictures of the before and after. The grate is approximately forty yards from the park entrance. The fact that this happened once means it could easily happen again, even if the broken pieces are put back in place.

Consumer Reports
ATTN: Jamie Darnow (Chief Marketing Officer, Consumer Reports)
101 Truman Avenue
Yonkers, NY 10703

3 August, 2011

Hello Google+ team.

Your decision to terminate access to all Google services for some Google+ users for questionable violations of the Google+ Terms of Service is a barrier to adoption.

Your failure to explain the reason, i.e., what specific provision of the Google+ Terms of Service they have violated, is a barrier to adoption.

Your failure to provide a customer service contact to explain why an account was terminated and offer recourse is a barrier to adoption.

As a result, Google has convinced me that I cannot originate content using Google+, and that Google+ is only a destination for content originating in a forum which I control to preclude loss in the event Google terminates access to all Google services for a questionable violation of the Google+ Terms of Service, for which no specific reason is given, and for which Google offers no recourse.

There is a concept much discussed in compliance activities in publicly-traded companies, and which is now referred to as the "tone from the top".

This concept is not new:

The U. S. Army for many years has referred to setting the tone from the top as: "setting the standard".

Deming referred to setting the tone from the top as: "Set an example".

Others attach different labels to the idea. The idea the labels describe, however, does not change as the labels change.

The tone from the top is set by the company's top executives, and establishes the standard by which employees of the company judge the company's expectations of their own compliance with internal or external regulation, stated or implied.

March of Dimes
PO Box 1794
Norfolk, VA 23501-1794

31 March, 2002

March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
1275 Mamaroneck Avenue
White Plains, NY 10605

23 April, 2002

March of Dimes, c/o CPI
1 Washington Center – Suite 320
Dover, NH 03820

16 June, 2002

To whom it may concern:

I realize that you were looking for someone to answer these cleverly-worded and politically loaded questions without comment, so that you could quote some alarming figures for the press at some point in the future, and to solicit donations to the Republican National Committee (RNC). Sorry to disabuse you of the notion that I can be reduced to a clever soundbite, a percentage, or a cash machine for a political party so out of touch with reality that it will be years before the American psyche recovers from the sheer ignorance of twenty years' worth of Republican candidates. I've got a few things to say, this is the perfect opportunity, and you paid for the stamp.