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A Masters in Mating Administration
Free market worshippers never miss an opportunity to propose their “trickle-down” economics of unfettered greed as the panacea solution to a complicated problem, viz., preserving the environment, improving education, providing healthcare, ending poverty. Now, though, they’re heading boldly where no debunked economic theory has gone before: proposing their brand of “entrepreneurialism” as the solution to the declining marriage rate. Read more
The Second (Last) Supper
I like to cook, but I wouldn’t know the difference between a bearnaise and a béchamel. And the only things I strain are stock, pasta and kidney stones. Read more
A Good, Down Dog
It’s fairly well-known that I’ll go to almost any length to avoid the medical system. I strengthened a knee rather than have a severed ACL repaired. I found a natural solution to the chronic diverticulitis that my then doctor wanted to have operated on. I drink enough water every day to start growing gills, all to avoid a recurrence of a passing kidney stone. Read more
A Consultant’s Consultant
It’s a wonderful time to be alive, what with all the pollsters and statisticians and retired this-and-that’s turned “talking head” experts, all these consultant-types surrounding us with their non-stop, very expert advice. In the olden days, when I was building a company, a consultant was someone who, months later, returned a difficult problem unsolved and worse off (and accompanied by a steep bill). Read more
Seeing the Forest from . . .
Why do some like to garden, while others will do almost anything, even fold laundry, to avoid playing in the dirt? There are all the “old saws” of exercise, health and peacefulness. But, frankly, I don’t find getting tired and sweaty hauling wheelbarrows of soil and mulch, and balled trees and bushes, tranquility-inducing. Read more