Tech Overload

Foxconned: Who Makes our Computers?

Foxconned: Who Makes our Computers?

Ghosts were the first thing I remember frightening me as a child. Arthur C. Clarke once...

Eureka!

Sugar Daddies & Sugar Babies

Sugar Daddies & Sugar Babies

A restaurant called Taboo is one my favorite haunts in one of my favorite American...

Mental Health

Losing Interest in Attention Deficit Disorder

Losing Interest in Attention Deficit Disorder

I guess I haven’t been paying attention, but it looks as if a lot of you haven’t...

Tech Overload

Don’t Fear the Robot: Why I Finally Joined Facebook

Don’t Fear the Robot: Why I Finally Joined Facebook

I recently joined this cool new social-networking site called “Facebook” because my...

Tech Overload

Over the Hill at 35

Over the Hill at 35

A lady recently asked Barack Obama why the government is issuing and extending H-1B...

High Life

Bailouts and Knockouts

Bailouts and Knockouts

GSTAAD—OK, sports fans! The Davos irrelevance is over, Gstaad is covered with the...

Britain

A Nightmare of Olympic Proportions

A Nightmare of Olympic Proportions

The omens were bad from the beginning. The day after the IOC awarded the 2012 Olympics...

Scandal

Free Kim Dotcom!

Free Kim Dotcom!

Have you noticed a strange undertone of snark on 60 Minutes every time they feature an...

Trade Unions

State of the Unions

State of the Unions

My maternal great-grandfather owned a large dry-goods concern which still exists. He...

PC World

Girl Scout Kooky

Girl Scout Kooky

At my first and last Brownie meeting, I hid in the community-center bathroom for two...

Economy

They Also Serve

They Also Serve

The Occupy movement brags that the parks it seized once hosted Depression-era...

Home Front

Stacking up Debt (and Bodies) in Illinois

Stacking up Debt (and Bodies) in Illinois

When G8 leaders convene in Chicago this May to discuss managing the global economy,...

Media

The Color of Cowardice

The Color of Cowardice

The “progressive” group Color of Change seems to have succeeded in its long-running...

Knock Off

Consumer Culture’s Top Five Failures

Consumer Culture’s Top Five Failures

This is the time of year when we celebrate the national religion of consumerism. Future...

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