Author: tom

No posts today…

… got other fish to fry. Should be back tomorrow with more scintillating linkage.

Share the wealth

If you did something you’re proud of, click on “comments” and pop it in there. Or send me an e-mail and I’ll add it to the page when I get a spare moment.

Bleat reversal

The other day I whined about something I did wrong; now I can aggravate my carpal tunnel patting myself on the back for doing something right. It was a small detail but it’s the kind of thing that causes people…

Useful fact about the Amish

Young males traditionally throw tomatoes at passing vehicles. And in the grand American tradition of wise use of firearms, an Amish man will be shotgunned to death for said transgressions.

Obligatory Krugman link

What gets me about Paul Krugman is how brilliant he is, and yet how often he oversimplifies complex topics. Nevertheless he does coin the occasional zinger. I liked this one especially. “There’s a confusion between objectivity and even-handedness, they are…

We take all the Washington Post bylines we can get

And if that means writing about cats, well, hey, how many of the rest of you are getting your stuff into the Post Style section? Above link is desgined to, hopefully, send some cheer to the proprietress of Nonsense Verse,…

Fishing for a good quote

If you hang around long enough, one of those jocks will say something that is not a cliche. From Craig Lancaster’s second-day story on Raiders’ weak victory against the worst NFL team of 2002: Guard Frank Middleton, sitting at his…

Wanna find out how a company feels about its employees?

Just take a look at how it negotiates with its unions. One of their favorite tricks: The complaint also said that Dow Jones declared that nonunion employees will receive wage increases, while union-represented employees won’t. If giving raises only to…