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Archive for October, 2011

-- Featured Comments -- My new favorite TV show at 9 p.m. on Sunday nights is "Celebrity Boss." I think all CEOs, especially those of large, diverse corporations, should stoop to the menial work of their workers to see what it's like in the trenches. The first episode was definitely a "feel-good" story. The truth it revealed is that there are many decisions management makes without Read More...

-- Featured Comments -- Aw, shucks, William. Yes, yes, yes, I've been on the cigarettes & coffee diet, the grapefruit diet, Atkins & the other guy's diet, pills-that-make-you-race diet, high protein low carb diet, macro diet; I've lifted weights for years, jogged in the same period of time...you name it, I've done it. My inner beauty is very cranky in spite of radiating like crazy until Read More...

-- Featured Comments -- I once worked in management at a "non-profit" college, part of a chain that was taken over by one of the "for-profit" college chains. For what the students got, the school was vastly overpriced. Big school selling point..get your associate's degree in eighteen months. However, one could get an associate's degree from a community college in just six months more, Read More...

-- Featured Comments -- The first ten people are going to complain about gov't choosing winners and losers and completely misunderstand how monopolies crush competition and raise prices for the final consumer. My guess is the people who read the WSJ tend to think business cannot create negative results. Certainly not one with a big smiley face for a logo.One wonders if this is what is Read More...

-- Featured Comments -- pit bull-Labrador mix What a waste of a Labrador. What is with pit bulls? They are now the most common dog. Will they protect you? They will get you in a lawsuit. If one approaches me I have various tools that are sure to slow them down - permanently. My favorite is an odd thing I picked up at Goodwill. Okay they have everything. The handle from a walnut tree Read More...

-- Featured Comments -- A powerful and sad article. Unfortunately, Ms. Thomas has followed the lead of far too many unknowing Psychologists and therapists who still see a couple and even the family as a collection of individuals rather than an emotional/spiritual team that must learn to function as a team or lose as a team. In fact. Ms. Thomas brilliantly indicates just that when she Read More...

-- Featured Comments -- Distributing Iodine tablets to those who might be downwind when there is a release of radiation sounds like a no-brainer, however... How many of those pills would gradually move to the back of the medicine cabinet and finally get thrown away five years later? Perhaps better to cache them locally and have a definite plan for fast distribution in case of an 'event'.I'm Read More...

-- Featured Comments -- "Live comfortably in retirement?" If you have to ask how much it's going to cost, you're obviously not in the upper 5th percentile whose money is so coveted by all the marketers these days. Get ready for cat food and some serious poverty, especially if you have the bad luck to get sick before you hit Medicare age. And so touchingly naive, these articles about Read More...

-- Featured Comments -- If you have a furnace, you should be generating your own electricity! Really. There are new designs (and after-market kits) that use a steam-driven turbine to capture the "waste energy" currently going up the flue. Many are built with off-the-shelf parts & simple plumbing, as the concept is based on simple thermodynamics (vs. expensive state-of-the-art chemistry Read More...

-- Featured Comments -- Kirth, There is also racial stereotyping. I had to meet with a supplier's R&D department over a serious product defect. I was introduced to a young Asian man, as their "mathematician". I will stipulate an IQ in triple digits (barely), but it was obvious that his main qualification was his broken English. I'm sorry if this sounds racist, but when nitty meets gritty, Read More...