One of the things I do for fun and profit is write a column on business management. I’ve written it for more than fifteen years, close to 200 columns in all, published monthly in a trade magazine that serves a tiny little sliver of what’s left of American manufacturing: Custom woodworking. I was raised by a tool-and-die...
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..but only because I returned the settings to the defaults that produce “ugly” URLs. Seriously, WordPress, is this the best you can do? Not to beat a dead horse (see two posts back, dear reader…) but writers and code writers - they’re two different things. If you really want to revolutionize communication, show those of us who spend...
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The shock expressed by commentators on the right earlier this week, just after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shared her clearly sincere and heartfelt concern about the tone of political discourse in this country, reminds me of Shakespeare: “Methinks protest too much.” For all their crying and caterwalling - and straight-up libelous remarks – about Pelosi, one...
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So I’ve wasted my Saturday trying to figure out how to make my Archives link actually connect to something – because at present it does not. Good thing I’ve got practically zero archives (so I’m safe – at least until October 1 hits!). What’s stuck in my craw today – Malcontent that I am...
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R-SC Joe Wilson bellowed, “You lie!” more than once Wednesday night. He shouted the same accusation while the President was still speaking, a little before the one that’s crystal-clear. Listen again, closely, to the clip.   This only makes the act all the more reprehensible, and shows it for what it really was: The premeditated following-through on a promise...
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