Sometimes a little black humor is the first step in changing attitudes - and maybe turning the tide. Think Country Joe & The Fish at Woodstock.      So, as we plumb ever more deeply the extent to which Big Business owns this once-great nation, I thought it might be fun - in a clinically depressed sort of way – to rework...
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“Saint Peter don’t you call me ‘cause I can’t go I owe my soul to the company store…” -Tennessee Ernie Ford Of all the things the Senate’s health care package doesn’t guarantee, there’s one thing it almost surely does: The further shrinking of the middle class, as employers who had stopped offering health insurance...
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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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