Photo credit: Gabriela Camerotti Displaced Aggression League Report — Week 13 TEAM OWNER SECRETS: Whose 7th grade obsession with serial killers resulted in a trip to the Guidance Counselor’s office after turning in a Language Arts project featuring a collection of meticulously-crafted dioramas with titles such…
It’s easy to pay lip service to education. Show me a politician who doesn’t have an education plank in the old platform and I will show you genuine amazement. Education is a significant slice of the pie chart. That would be the pie of votes,…
So, the Army Corps of Engineers was in charge of building a hurricane protection system around New Orleans, as ordered by Congress in response to Hurricane Betsy. There are a lot of interlocking political entities–levee boards, New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board (S&WB), etc.–
Editor’s note: Part I/Part II
Photo credit: « м Ħ ж » ONE – Introduction I was a university student in Business Management when I first heard the term Eighty-Twenty Principle. It was applied quite simply to the balance between inventory and profitability. In essence, it said that eighty percent…
We remember privacy.
Photo credit: Sophia Louise ONE – Introduction David Simon, creator of The Wire and Treme, said in an interview with Bob Edwards that America is a “prisoner of short-term gain.” I thought this a most elegant summation of this country’s evolution into the ethical swamp…
Photo credit: get directly down Initial Disclosures: The author hiding (not very carefully or thoroughly) behind the pseudonym above is an attorney, albeit a non-practicing one. Said author also is the editor of a commercial periodical about privacy law published by a company that…
Some of my friends and family members think that it must be very hard to be an American-raised woman living in a developing country. They are right, but often for all the wrong reasons. Here’s a partial list of the things that they seem to…
After this experience, I have to say that I am glad not to be on the market these days. When I was on the other side of the table, I wondered if the committee called candidates just to laugh at our desperation. I’ve since lost count of how many jobs I applied for, but I do recall the recurring question that often comes to me in dreams: “Why would you like to work at our university?” The obvious answer was “because I need a job!”
Photo Credit: Joe Shlabotnik In HBO’s Girls Hannah Horvath, a precocious Oberlin grad moves to The Big Apple, where she interns at a publishing house for two years–entirely on her parents’ dime. A reliable foundation for a privileged American success story? One would hope. But…
Anecdotal evidence is just that: anecdotal. One situation doesn’t prove anything one way or another, and in fact can be misleading in the larger context. The one person that dies from The New [Almost] Perfect Drug does not accurately represent the ten thousand that were…
Screaming is an under appreciated art form. For one thing, it’s hard to do. Try it. Go lock yourself in the bathroom, close the windows, turn on the fan and start yelling.
It’s not easy to let it all out without feeling self conscious. It takes confidence to be naked and raw. Or, as is the case with many a writer, liquid courage gets the job done.