Made in America
For the past couple of months, I’ve been working on an article about how a sporting goods manufacturer is moving their production to China. I’ve tried to stay really open minded about it. I don’t, just...
View ArticlePerspective…or something
In the time it takes me to write this post, 20 children in Africa, all under the age of 5, will have died of malaria. I have to admit, I don’t really think about malaria much, except maybe as something...
View ArticleManagement Training, Anyone?
I’ve been looking for work since March. It’s the oddest market I’ve ever looked for work in, though perhaps I have to take some responsibility for that because I have become very, very picky. I...
View ArticleLike a steel trap
I’ll be honest. I don’t know enough about the Federalist Society to know if I should care whether or not Mr. Nice Guy, the Supreme Court nominee, was a member. What I do know is this: If one of the...
View ArticleKill the space pinto
No kid was more Space-Shuttle-Crazy than I was. My family pulled strings to get me private tours of the Johnson Space Center with a real-live Astronaut, and only the oil bust kept me from being at the...
View ArticleTime to Mainline the Mainstream
No one is surprised by the GAO report about the FDA’s rejection of “Plan B,” least of all me. Nor am I surprised that Alito is anti-abortion. It is also no shock that the political hack installed at...
View ArticleWhat a year it was
Especially the wayHarper’s writes it. Happy New Year, everyone. Let’s make this one count!
View ArticleWho put this list together?
Harold Bloom? The New York Times is set to release it list of the best books of American fiction published in the last 25 years. And although they rated Toni Morrison’s Beloved as number 1 (with which...
View ArticleAngry With Israel
Last night, I rode my bike down to the International District to join some friends for dinner. I crossed paths with Critical Mass, a bike ride comprised of hundreds of cyclists, all spinning up...
View ArticleIn Soviet America, Flag Flies You
So apparently it’s state law in Colorado that “any person who displays any flag other than the flag of the United States of America or the state of Colorado or any of its subdivisions, agencies or...
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