Tuesday, October 28, 2014

What's the Difference Between a $5.60 Big Mac and a $4.80 Big Mac?

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One of them comes with a living wage for the server, and the other doesn't. In today's New York Times , Liz Alderman and Steven ...
Friday, October 24, 2014

Still Waiting for Stronger Action

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The numbers of states banning a particular type of guardrail has now grown to ten. In the event of a vehicular collision, the guardrail and ...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Happy Endings Can Happen!

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...but it helps to have The New York Times watching. Yesterday, I wrote about the woman who was essentially fired from her job for being ...
Monday, October 20, 2014

What Ever Happened to Common Decency and Compassion?

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At the workplace, apparently, it's being forced out by the Almighty Bottom Line. Today's New York Times carries a deeply depressi...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Who Guards the Guardrails?

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I grew up in hilly, curvy New England, and still love nothing more than driving some of those hilly, curvy roads. Probably at speeds in exce...
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Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Inspections are Easy. Now Comes the Hard Part.

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Steven  Greenhouse reported in today's New York Times that two separate groups have completed inspections of more than 1,700 garment f...
Thursday, October 9, 2014

The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions...

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... and especially with many little mis-steps. As C. S. Lewis wrote in this Screwtape Letters , Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gr...