At least we know where their priorities lie
By Ben Munson
I find it interesting that this article about GM reducing its healthcare liabilities thanks to a new arrangement with the UAW never mentions what specifically will happen to retirees and current employees. Will they have to pay more out of each paycheck? Will retirees have to get new jobs just to make ends’ [...]
Don’t Invite Dictators to Your Dinner Party
If a pleasant gathering to celebrate successful steps in ending world hunger is what you are after, then it is advisable not to invite leading world dictators to your party. This advise was clearly ignored by UN officials yesterday, as they invited Presidents Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez to take the [...]
Information Overload
Allow me a moment to bash the greedy higher-ups at the Wall Street Journal.
Folks: I have enough to read already. Like your employees, I write about the financial markets. Although my publication is a monthly newsmagazine, I still must daily read your newspaper, the New York Times, the FT (sometimes), Fortune and Forbes, and all [...]
“From here on in, I shoot without a script.”
The Rock Opera “RENT” defined a portion of my life. It led me to an understanding of the world around me, and of myself, that may have taken me years longer to come to on my own. Silly and trite as it seems to feel this connected to a musical, the abstraction of themes and [...]
How Eric Got His Game Back
Okay. I’ll admit it. I don’t play video games.
There. I said it.
I’m a supergeek who hates halo. I’m the sole square-enix fan that has yet to finish Final Fantasy 7 let alone any of the games that followed. I’m the only dork more likely to win the Olympic gold in high-jumping* than to frag someone [...]
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