Defining your definitions (or: Catalog sales are increasing)

How do we define a Catalog? A catalog is essentially a thick, bi-annual publication that proposes goods to consumers, like the mail-order catalog, right? In that sense, catalog sales are down. WAY down, since civilization has adopted the internet. That is, of course, assuming that a catalog is hundreds of color pages printed on paper [...]

Colin Powell once said:

“Never underestimate the cost of inaction”.  link Consider: Colin Powell opposed the invasion of IRAQ. He was one of the only decision-makers “in the room” to have served his country in a war. He was dismissed/fired for publicly questioning his administration’s bellicose attitude. So where is the problem? His line (well, more of a principle [...]