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Friday, August 11, 2023

And you wonder why we need regulations

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I grew up in a large family in a small house where the kids were in classrooms with as many as 50 classmates. So, a lot of colds. To treat a...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

I laughed. I gagged. (Oh, what those royals do to me.)

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At my very core, I believe that the monarchy in general, and in England in particular, is a crock of ridiculous nonsense that has no place i...
Wednesday, August 09, 2023

Printer, you're the devil

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I still have a printer. It's a cheapo black and white Brothers something or other. Whatever was on sale at Staples when I bought it a wh...
Tuesday, August 08, 2023

Dr. Vainglory, I presume

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Dr. Katharine Roxanne Grawe, an Ohio plastic surgeon specializing in elective (vanity) surgery, recently got her license lifted. (It had bee...
Monday, August 07, 2023

Actually, if we were really evolved...

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I'm always interested in local companies that make good.  iRobot: With my new Shark, I'm still in old-fashioned vacuum cleaner mode,...
Friday, August 04, 2023

Talk about FAFO

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There's even a name for them. Tourons of Yellowstone. And they have their own Insta and FB accounts. Of course, the people posting aren...
Thursday, August 03, 2023

Not so tender chicken

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I like nothing more than a good old scandal. I was going to write that I savor these stories, but this one is decidedly unsavory. Eric Golds...
Wednesday, August 02, 2023

Honestly?

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I don't know Harvard Business School Professor Francesca Gino. I've never met her. But I've read her work, and heard her present...
Tuesday, August 01, 2023

Faith and begorrah, let's put these stereotypes to rest

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In the mid-1800's,  the Irish - especially after they started fleeing the famine that devastated their country -  began immigrating in g...
Monday, July 31, 2023

Talk about damaged goods

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Back in the day (think Gilded Age), rich folks bought seaside "cottages" (think mansions) and private railroad cars to schlep them...
Friday, July 28, 2023

"You're a grand old flag, you're a high-flying flag"

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On the Fourth of July, with nothing better to do in late afternoon, I turned on Turner Movie Classics and caught a bit of the ridiculously c...
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Thursday, July 27, 2023

No surprise here (at least to me).

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For more than 20 years - first as a professor at Tuck (Dartmouth's business school), and later at USC - David Kang has kept track of the...
Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Bye Bye Birdie

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Elon Musk acquired Twitter last October for $44B; the company is now worth $15B. (So much for the theory that Musk's a genius.) Since bu...
Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Water, water everywhere

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After 30+ years living in an old - really old - building, I am no stranger to water raining down on my (inside) head. Some of the leaks were...