If I wrote motivational posters for a living, that’s what mine would say. Actually, I didn’t write that line; I found it in a fortune cookie from my buddy Greg’s wedding. They’ve since divorced.
Another friend of mine, Rob Walker, wrote this terrific piece in his Consumed column in The New York Times Magazine. It’s about a company called …
They don’t really have street addresses in Tokyo, and I’ve always chalked that up to a combination of the city’s plethora of really short streets running into each other at odd angles, and the widespread Japanese desire to remain undecipherable to foreigners.
They don’t really have street addresses in Managua, either, and when I was …
Robert Waldmann has coined a new word (he did it almost a week ago, but hey, I’ve been on vacation):
Nordtopian adj based on the illusion that the Nordic model can and might be adopted elsewhere.
Now this blog has certainly exhibited many telltale signs of Nordophilia (which I guess is why Felix Salmon pointed the Waldmann link out to …
12:01 a.m.: Lie awake fretting over childcare and work. Baby sitter has selfishly selected friend’s funeral over feeding my child chicken cutlets. Weekly newsmagazine selfishly refuses to move publication date in order to accommodate childcare implosion. Husband selfishly unavailable to pinch hit, due to existence of own career. What to …
So now Hillary Clinton has decided to endorse John McCain’s silly idea of a three-month federal gas tax holiday. Only Barack Obama, who voted for an Illinois gas tax holiday back in 2000 but has since seen the error of his ways, is standing firm against this nonsense.
Why’s it nonsense? First of all, because the impact would be …
It’s in the issue of Time that came out last Friday, with Barary (Oblinton?) on the cover, and online here. It begins:
On those awkward occasions when he is asked about his nation’s currency, President George W. Bush has a simple response. “We believe in a strong-dollar policy,” he’ll say–or words to that effect. For his Treasury
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There was a story this morning on the cover of the New York Times about the mortgage industry fighting back against new regulations coming down the pike from the Federal Reserve. The Fed wants to require lenders to do things like make sure people taking out subprime loans can afford them, and clearly disclose fees instead of rolling …
Did you? It was April 24, last Thursday. I totally forgot about it, even after Cathy, our head of Time.com operations, reminded me to post that day on the topic. In my defense, taking my daughter to work requires a) securing a spot for her in the company’s on-site daycare; b) planning my commute around her; c) clearing my work schedule of …
Meant to post about this last night, but my wee brain was still awhirl with singing horses.
I took my little one to see My Little Pony Live yesterday. For those of you without three-year-old girls living in your households, I refer to a Hasbro brand involving pastel-colored, talking equines with long-lashed manga eyes. There are picture …
Let’s be honest. A lot of corporate mergers don’t make sense. But chocolate-maker Mars buying gum-maker Wrigley with all-around-smart-guy Warren Buffett helping to finance the deal? Do I get M&Ms thrown at me if I call that delicious?
On this morning’s conference call, there was a lot talk about the “strong cultural and strategic fit” …
That’s in the Mercado Central in San Jose, Costa Rica, this morning. We’re going to catch a plane to Newark in a few hours, and I’m back at work tomorrow. I’m tempted to post lots of out-of-focus long-distance shots of sloths and monkeys, but I’ll leave it with this cool photo, taken from the car window somewhere along the Pacific …
Hi, That Anonymous Dude. Great to see you in the Comments section again. I rented a Ford Focus, which does, in fact, have pretty decent gas mileage.
It also has an E-ZPass transponder on the front windshield. I haven’t seen that in a rental car before, but it makes perfect sense. Apparently, the car rental companies have been trying …
