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Friday, March 09, 2018

Anthem (“All Hail, Massachusetts”)

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On the news the other evening, the West Virginia teachers, who had resolved their strike and gotten a raise for themselves and other state w...
Thursday, March 08, 2018

Village of the demented

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Forget spring, it’s winter when a not-so-young woman’s fancy turns to thoughts of aging. And, in my experience, that fancy turning happens a...
Wednesday, March 07, 2018

Just us Silicon Valley chickens

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I was talking to a guy at the gym/PT the other day, and he mentioned that his wife is a dog trainer, and a dog trainer-trainer. One of her t...
Tuesday, March 06, 2018

Because he’s Jeff Bezos, that’s why

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Jeff Bezos is worth more than $100 billion, making him the not just the wealthiest person in the world, but the wealthiest person in history...
Monday, March 05, 2018

“Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland.”

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As anyone who’s read James Joyce’s “The Dead” – or even seen the movie – knows, it actually does snow in Ireland. But not often, and typical...
Friday, March 02, 2018

Consumer protection? What consumer protection? We don’t need no stinkin’ consumer protection

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There are recalls all the time. Airbags that explode on no-contact. Listeria-drenched cantaloupe. Moldy UGG comforters. (Ugh!) Although I’v...
Thursday, March 01, 2018

That’s a relief (if you’re a construction worker, anyway)

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I don’t know about you, but I try to avoid events where I have to use a porta-potty. Yuck on yuck. All using a porta-potty does for me – oth...
Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Chalking it up

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Before I went pro in another field – high-tech product management and marketing (yawn!) – I was a professional waitress. Yes, I’d also been...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Who said there isn’t any more factory work???

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Last week, Twitter cleared out a whole bunch of bots, and some Tweeters found that the grand numbers on their list of followers had plummete...
Monday, February 26, 2018

Location, location, location

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At first, it used to startle me a bit, but that was years ago. Now I pay it no mind when, three minutes after I make the decision of the ce...
Friday, February 23, 2018

Kylie Jenner as market mover? Can the world get any crazier?

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I’m not much for keeping up with the Kardashians.Pretty much what I know about them is that the women’s names all start with K, that they ha...
Thursday, February 22, 2018

The Eatin’ of the Green

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The day after Valentine’s Day, I was in Roche Brothers and came across a table full of St. Patrick’s Day cupcakes. Not that I’m in the least...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

“Strategic brilliance…”

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Although I’m not – to say the least – looking for a job, I always enjoy glancing through the help wanted ads in The Economist . Sometimes th...
Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Welcome, Immigrants of 1871. There’s an opening for a bunger in New Jersey…

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The Internet is a wondrous place which, if you’re ready,willing, and able to waste a ton o’ time, will wondrously accommodate you. And there...