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Where to begin? Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal ran an expose on the hoops companies jump through to fund executive pensions. They do it quietly, tweak the pensions of lower-level employees (sometimes...
Once every ten years, bishops from across the Anglican communion (that’s the Episcopalians here in the US) meet at Lambeth palace with the Archbishop of Canterbury. This time around things have radically...
Man oh man, Charles had a passive-aggressive girlfriend! Charles had taken a liking to Fanny Owen through his Cambridge years, but as he departed on the Beagle voyage, well… She dumped him. Apparently...
David K. Levine on keeping your monopoly just long enough to benefit from it -- but not so long as to be, well, a monopoly. Further, Dark Knight did it without government intervention!
Patterson and Afilalo were never that optimistic about Doha. They are international law and trade experts at Rutgers, who feel that the WTO procedure is based on an economic situation (beginning at Bretton...
Did you miss Timothy Lynch and Robert Singh‘s presentation at the Hudson Institute July 22? Weinstein, Lynch, Singh and Kaplan I did. But my colleague Sadhika was there, and it was a fantastic discussion. The...
What can’t they buy? Did your university have a climbing wall, hot tubs, or en-suite bathrooms? Mine sure didn’t. And I didn’t miss ’em. Then again, it didn’t have a massive...
Umm… oopsie? Now, I’m not a rocket scientist. I don’t know how to make robots or use sensors or any of that kind of thing. I’m only mediocre at Fantastic Contraption. Anyway, with...
This post, from David K. Levine‘s Against Monopoly, along with the ensuing discussion, poses some questions: Do trademarks represent an identity? What rights do we have to our identities, corporate...
The collector bug strikes early. At the age of twelve, in addition to being stinky, Charles Darwin reminds himself that if he is going to be a great naturalist, he’ll need a place for his stash....
Is anyone else floored by this? At Ford, End of a Big-Vehicle Era Takes a Toll (NY Times) Ford and GM are losing lots of money and generally making a mess of things, because they focused so much on pickup...
The folks at Slate have been so kind as to put together a Venn Diagram of The crimes committed by the Bush Administration. Oh, where to start? Though you can follow the chart well enough from here, I’d...
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