Red Friday
2013-11-24 – I always thought I had a pretty good sense of color. I score pretty high on a variety of color blindness tests. High, meaning that I can discriminate […]
Tag Archives: Business
Twain Technology
2013-11-12 – The release last month of the Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition (Mark Twain Papers), put me in mind of Kit’s an my […]
Corporate Subsidy
2013-11-03 – A couple days ago there was a post floating around Facebook saying that US taxpayers, on average, pay $36 apiece per year to support the food stamp program […]
I Owe My Soul . . . No More
201310-02 – It has been common to say that, if you are covered by employer-provided healthcare, you are not affected by Obamacare. This is true in a technical sense. […]
Anger As a Cultural Value
2013-08-05 – Robert Reich writes about anger in America and chalks it up to social inequality, with a little help from the media and social media. I have no quarrel, […]
Driverless Harleys
2013-07-10 – There’s been a lot of news lately about driverless cars. Here’s a video about the Google driverless car. Google’s system has logged hundreds of thousands of miles without an […]
Book Doctors
2013-07-09 – After pitching my book at the Printers Row Lit Fest last month, I arranged a 45 minute consultation with organizers of Lit Fest Pitchapalooza, the Book Doctors. The […]
Shut Up and Do Your Work!
2013-06-17 – George Will once said “Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.” Science is now looking into the problem of committee […]
A 1,559 Square Foot Home
2013-06-10 – We are now being inundated with details about Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower, as if he were a mass murderer. Scandalously, he lived in a 1,559 square foot […]
Oh, F**k = Of Course!
2013-06-03 – Kit and I got home the other day after some odious errand. When we got in the door, she asked if I would walk the dog—another odious chore. […]
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