A Shirt With a User’s Manual
2015-08-30 – My wife Kit bought me a new shirt. I have it on for the first time as I am writing this. It is a very nice shirt and […]
Tag Archives: Business
What Does It Mean to Work More?
2015-07-14 – Today is Bastille Day. I’ve never really understood the cause for celebration. But then I don’t get Cinco de Mayo. Or St. Patrick’s Day. A party is a […]
What Happened to Right and Wrong?
2015-05-07 – They like to blame it on liberals and academics. Moral relativism is what’s tearing our society apart. There’s no right and wrong anymore. That’s what they say. And […]
No Trophies Just for Participating?
2015-05-03 – There’s an ecard floating around the Internet that goes like this: “I’m afraid of a world run by adults who were never spanked as kids and got trophies […]
Big Pharma vs. Big Insurance
2015-02-08 – One of the knocks on the widely accepted wisdom that #vaccineswork is that this knowledge is corrupted because of Big Pharma. The idea is that Big Pharma falsified […]
I Am Paying My Server More than the Server’s So-Called Employer
2015-01-22 – There’s been a lot of talk lately about the practice of tipping in restaurants. Apparently, the national minimum wage for tipped employees is still $2.13. If you thought […]
Don’t Forget About Sunk Costs
2014-25-2014 – Okay. It was a bad year. Lost job. Illness and death in the family. Last kid is off to college and we’re alone. Friend dies. New job is […]
Listen, O Israel!
2014-11-02 – Good Morning Daylight Wasting Time! Isn’t that what you should call it? It’s the alternative to Daylight Savings Time. We are now plunging into the darkness of winter. […]
I’m Being Followed Around by a Eureka Hand-Held Vacuum
2014-10-23 – I am being followed around by a Eureka hand-held vacuum cleaner. And it sucks! It’s not the actual vacuum cleaner. It’s an ad for the vacuum cleaner that […]
The Firewall Against Ebola—It’s the Government
2014-10-02 – No you don’t have Ebola. And you’re not going to get it either—unless you go to West Africa. Not in the United States. Why? Because we have effective […]
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