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Too bad irreverence is no crime
At issue in this writing is the exchange between Stephen Colbert and J. Patrick Boyle, president and CEO of the American Meat Institute, for “The Colbert Report” series on “Know Your Lobby.”
August 31, 2010 | Comments (1)
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Follow up: Penalize the real culprits, not BP innocents
I know what I think about the decision-makers responsible for the worst oil spill ever. But I wanted input from others. To that end, I took your comments to the street so-to-speak and conducted a rather unscientific poll.
July 30, 2010 | Comments (0)
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Don’t punish BP franchisees
The unsolicited e-mails coming my way urging me to boycott BP gas stations are troubling. The matter came home to roost over the July 4th weekend when a friend shared his encounter at a BP station.
July 7, 2010 | Comments (1)
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I had a dream
Have you ever had a dream that was so good and seemed so real that, when you woke up, you tried to go back to sleep in hopes of recapturing it or at least picking up where you left off?
April 22, 2010 | Comments (1)
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Free food: Methodology not madness
As a pre-pubescent young girl, my aunt put me on a train in Brooklyn, NY, for my visit to another relative and admonished me “not to take any wooden nickels.” I had no clue what she meant.
April 1, 2010 | Comments (0)
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The beater I once knew and loved and other automobile musings
I like classic cars – especially the 1949 Ford because it was the first car I drove all by myself. I had no idea how important this car was to the American economy. When it was introduced in the spring of 1949, the car was considered revolutionary because it broke from previous ideas of design and engineering.
March 3, 2010 | Comments (0)
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Motivation: Who has it and how you can get some
What the world needs now is motivation — only the right kind of motivation will do, however. I recently attended a day-long seminar listening to speaker after speaker offer their slant — meaning a biased perspective on something that is likely to appeal to a particular group — on what it takes to have a successful life on any front, including any given Sunday.
February 22, 2010 | Comments (3)
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Recreating a cycle of supply and demand: A time for extraordinary measures
Whether they want to or not, America’s elected officials must begin to think and act with an out-of-the-box mentality to give our economy even a glimmer of potential to regain its solvency. A major challenge these days relates to how public and private entities, upon which the nation’s economy relies, interact with each other.
February 8, 2010 | Comments (0)
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A new beginning
Before I turned in my press badge a few months ago identifying me as a working journalist in good standing, I read “Super-Charged Retirement” by Mary Lloyd, who advises her readers to “ditch the rocking chair, trash the remote and do what you love.”
January 14, 2010 | Comments (6)
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Obama’s failure is good news for the pork industry
Today is Friday, May 1, 2009. What a week we had...
May 5, 2009 | Comments (1)
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Teaching children the art of living
Some people may think home economics is about real-estate financials. Back in the day, however, home economics was about cooking, sewing and housekeeping. I not only learned the basics of food preparation in a “Home Economics” class, I also learned to sew, which I continue to enjoy to this day.
April 27, 2009 | Comments (0)
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Parents don’t let your kids grow up to be litterbugs
I have become a connoisseur of urban trash littering our community landscapes. During my daily constitutional, I have seen all kinds of stuff including paper, plastic, glass, clothing and shoes.
April 13, 2009 | Comments (1)
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The proposed card-check law: bane or blessing?
I recently asked several meat-industry chief executives to answer this question: “If you could get the ear of a key powerbroker in Washington with the most influence over your business, what would you ask for?”
March 25, 2009 | Comments (6)
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AIG execs should get their bonuses — just not right now
Regardless of public sentiment, for the good of the country, the AIG execs should give the money back and ask for it when times get better.
March 19, 2009 | Comments (6)
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Plausibility + probability=certainty
Worry is paying interest on trouble before it is due. This was one of my dad’s favorite admonishments to me every time I shared my worries with him.
March 9, 2009 | Comments (1)
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