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McDonald’s Is On The Ropes..

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/4481316.htm Posted on Sat, Nov. 09, 2002 story:PUB_DESC McDonald’s to close 175 locations, cut jobs By Deborah Cohen Reuters CHICAGO – Fast-food giant McDonald’s said Friday that it will shut down about...

US in Denial as Poverty Rises…

http://www.observer.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,825150,00.html US in denial as poverty rises Next door to Yale, the bastion of privilege that turns out the land’s leaders, lies a tent city of America’s poor, huddled masses. Ed Vulliamy reports on the...

Widening Inequality and the Envy Politic

George W. Bush should be glad that CNN and CNBC are being plastered with aerial shots of crime scenes from the random killings in and around DC. Before the Washington Sniper started popping suburbanites, America was just starting to get down to a serious discussion of...

Steal This Column..

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020926.html Steal This Column Criticism Won’t Change the DMCA, but Breaking the Law Will By Robert X. Cringely After last week’s column about BayTSP and its CEO, Mark Ishikawa, I received hundreds of critical...

Politically Incorrect Thoughts About 9/11

Last night I sat down to pen something extremely sensitive and whimsical about the whole 9/11 experience, but then I figured that you are all experiencing a glut of sensitivity and whimsy. I was stuck inside for the last four days with some sort of obnoxious sinus...