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Tuesday, April 04, 2017

I’d like to teach the world to invest, in perfect harmony. I’d like to buy the world a Coke, to keep it company.

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Warren Buffett on a can of Coke? We won’t be seeing it here in the States, but in China, The Sage of Omaha’s wise old visage will soon be g...
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Monday, April 03, 2017

Book binding

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The other day, my sister Trish asked me whether I had Hillbilly Elegy and, if so, could she borrow it. Well, yes and no. I do have Hillbi...
Friday, March 31, 2017

“Retail outrage of the day”

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It’s not that I’m opposed to dropping a reasonable amount of coin on an article of clothing. Decades ago, when menswear suits for women (oy!...
Thursday, March 30, 2017

A little executive hand-holding, why don’t we

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Even before someone invented the term “C-Suite,” perks (above and beyond above and beyond salaries and bonuses, and sploshier offices) have ...
Wednesday, March 29, 2017

You Load Sixteen Tons

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One of the big hit songs of my early childhood – right up there with “The Ballad of David Crockett,” “How Much Is That Doggy in the Window”,...
Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Growing up and paying $30 for the kit

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When I was growing up, menstruation was a pretty hush-hush deal. Mothers closed the bathroom door and whispered the icky info to their daugh...
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Monday, March 27, 2017

Office supply

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I worked in “corporate” for enough years to recognize that there’s an office supply full of predictable types. In a recent column in the Chi...
Friday, March 24, 2017

Float like a drone, pollinate like a bee

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I suspect that one of the things that allows us to turn a blind eye to all sorts of environmental depredations, whether all-natural or man-m...
Thursday, March 23, 2017

Making Wisconsin Great Again, one butter pat at a time

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Jean Smith lives in Wisconsin. As in Dairyland USA Wisconsin. Alas for Jean Smith, she can’t buy Kerrygold butter in her home state. Thus, ...
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Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Industrious prisoners

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When I was a kid, we all knew that prisoners made license plates. And every once in a while there’d be some small frisson of excitement when...
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

“A specialty cocktail served in an ostrich eggshell”

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I have been to a few upscale weddings in my day. You know. The kind where you really can’t help running the numbers in your head, followed b...
Monday, March 20, 2017

Come on, a trial would be waymo interesting

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Well, the news came in last week that Google v. Uber might not be going to trial, but could be heading for arbitration instead. Is it just m...
Friday, March 17, 2017

Faith and Begorrah

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This will be the 11th time that Pink Slip celebrates St. Patrick’s Day. All I can say to that is beejaysus. Today I have no plans to do mu...
Thursday, March 16, 2017

Just a bit off target

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It’s been a hallmark of the past few decades that much of what’s familiarly local (First National Bank of Boston, Dini’s Seafood, Filene’s) ...
Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Snow Day

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Ever since the Blizzard of ‘78 – back in the day when weather forecasting was not quite the “science” it is today, and people actually were ...