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I Voted for Mitt Romney
I voted for Mitt Romney yesterday, knowing he would lose badly because he ran a horrible campaign. As I lamented to my sons before the election that Romney was going [...]
Dealing With Loss
The aftermath of Super-storm Sandy makes me ask the question whether a generator should become standard equipment in homes and businesses. My wife has a big family in New Jersey [...]
Concentrate, Or I Will Slap You
NPR’s “Morning Edition” on Monday had a story about a man named Maneesh Sethi, who runs a Web site called “Hack the System.” Sethi spends a great portion of his [...]
Gun – No Gun
I am one of the dwindling number of Americans who have never owned a gun – or a rifle, semi-automatic, shotgun, or RPG. I did practice using a rifle (M-16) [...]
Should God Bless America?
Do we now have two National Anthems? The “Star Spangled Banner” and “God Bless America”? At Yankee Stadium they play the Banner before the games and the Irving Berlin masterpiece [...]
Manufacturing a President
A little more than two weeks to go before the 2012 American election. It seems like business is stuck in the mud–slinging. I’m going to make the contrarian case that [...]
Printing Money?
One of the more interesting areas developing in manufacturing today is the three-dimensional printing of parts. The process is in vogue for the rapid prototyping gang. It merited a front [...]
Advertising Fatigue on the Web
I am suffering from a case of auction advertising fatigue on the Web. Every morning I see 15 or 20 ads for auctions on various sites. I used to open [...]
A Remarkable Season
It’s October and I can’t resist writing about one of my true loves – not politics – baseball. It’s been another remarkable regular season. Baltimore and Washington make the playoffs. [...]
Resumé Inflation
Richard Gonzalez, Chief Operating Officer of Abbott Laboratories (market cap $108 billion) has a Bachelors Degree from the University of Houston and a Graduate Degree in Biochemistry from the University [...]