Forty years of American business and industry aimed at the specific goal of globalization, a term we common folk could…
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The NY Times Investigates Itself, Finds Self Innocent
The Times published a bodice-ripping account of its performance during the Trump administration and settled for a number of self-effacing…
We, the Socially Distanced
Seems like it took a pandemic to make us actually realize how distanced we have become from one another and…
The Protest Pot Is on the Boil
(NY Times, July 25, 2020) SEATTLE — Weeks of violent clashes between federal agents and protesters in Portland, Ore.,…
Can’t Cure a 300 Year-Old Drought by a Month of Rain
Racism is in the American DNA, a matter of societal drought that goes back a long way, aimed at…
When the Pandemic is Finally Through With Us
A recent Seth Godin blog reads as follows: Is everything going to be okay? That depends. If…
Not Why, But Why Not Coronavirus?
I’m no longer a young man and so I often see things from more of a historic than immediate…
Language Matters—Now as Never Before
You have to be pretty old to remember “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never…
Honoring Excellence
I’m a subscriber to Word a Day and one of the clever things it does, beyond expanding my vocabulary,…
Why Aren’t the Sacklers in Jail, Facing Murder Charges?
It’s a fair question. 210,000 Americans (and counting) are dead from an opioid epidemic in which Purdue Pharmaceutical was…