Is it just me, or have you noticed how many people are paying for their groceries with credit cards? Nah, not debit cards because you don’t have to sign receipts for those–but credit cards! Wouldn’t one think that cash should be used for the necessities of life, and when one must buy the necessities on [...]

How many are there like me? I grew up with baseball as my national pastime, but as of late baseball has became the “past-its-time” game. This I attribute squarely to the efforts of one Bud Selig, he of the owners’ coalition that wrested control of the sport from an independent commissioner and, in [...]

When I worked for a union–yes, the same place that vows to protect workers’ rights but which laid me and others off the first chance the new president got to flex his muscles (what’s the diff here with the corporate world?)–to shop at Wal*Mart was to create the most heinous sin, equal to and potentially [...]

You’ve heard of schools for scoundrels, at least in the movies. In truth, such training-launching pads exist in virtually every neighborhood. One learns how to be a scoundrel by the proper, or improper, associations with others while growing up. But what about BS?
My ex-girlfriend in Toronto, who is once again switching jobs [...]

Don’t revel too much, you commuters relying on gas-guzzling vehicles. It comes as no surprise that the Bush-House of Saud connection is holding true this election year. As we’ve seen, gas prices have been plummeting. However, a little-noticed news report out of Riyadh last Friday noted that said House of Saud would [...]

It’s a strange world we live in. Back in the 1980s, when most of us had indemnity insurance policies with $100 and $200 yearly deductibles, health care was convenient and affordable. I went through a typical runaround, however, with eye doctors’ debating whether I had glaucoma. After three specialists and tons of [...]

I wonder how Ben and his alterego Poor Richard would handle the enormity of the problem of cheating in our society. (Ask your school-age or college kids the source of their latest essay.) I got stung myself today as, at 7 a.m. no less, my phone rang to verify a purchase of a [...]

I wonder how Ben and his alterego Poor Richard would handle the enormity of the problem of cheating in our society. (Ask your school-age or college kids the source of their latest essay.) I got stung myself today as, at 7 a.m. no less, my phone rang to verify a purchase of a [...]

I’ve had several bosses who would say “no” to requests for projects from other departments: “We just don’t have the people (time, resources, etc.) to do that.” Here, saying no is a convenient way to get out of any additional work, and in some cases any work at all!
I’ve also had bosses who [...]

As I read more of Poor Richard’s Almanack, I was struck by this saying: It is Ill-Manners to silence a Fool, and Cruelty to let him go on.
This must be why I can’t stand listening to any politicians, at least since Ronald Reagan left office. It would be ill-mannered of me to say anything [...]