Imagine a world where all the decent U.S. jobs are outsourced abroad to the lowest bidder, then imagine the sort of work you will be doing (assuming you live in the U.S.) afterward. That’s right kids, can you s(t)ay “unemployed” or “Would you like fries with that?” or “Which corner should I work tonight?” [...]
The world owes Cintra Wilson an apology.
In a recent New York Times fashion column, Cintra Wilson excoriated the new J.C. Penney’s in Midtown Manhattan:
AND herein lies the genius of J. C. Penney: It has made a point of providing clothing for people of all sizes (a strategy, company officials have said, to snatch business from [...]
Well, if you watched Meet the Press yesterday, you were either understandably concerned about the death/demise of the public option provision contained in the president’s wish list on health care reform. In reality, a public option would have been the first step toward a single payer system—one in which all Americans are covered. But Obama [...]
I once asked a successful lawyer and judge whether, given the chance to live his life differently and not to have become a lawyer, would he eschew his legal career and be something else? His answer, that he would not have become a lawyer, surprised me. I didn’t ask him this question during the now-receding [...]
In a wonderful op-ed in The New York Times today, Charles M. Blow becomes the first person I’ve heard or read to decipher what I think is the fundamental problem with this year’s health care debate. Specifically, Blow writes;
One of the most frustrating aspects of the health care debate is that the people who most [...]
