Absentee Agency
Office report finds that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which is notorious for harassing private employers for dubious reasons, hasn’t been exactly diligent when …
Category: Reflections
Trickle-Down Charity
The Giving USA foundation just released a report showing that needs created by the tsunami, Katrina, and Pakistani earthquake disasters pushed charitable giving in 2005 …
An Industry in Search of Robber Barons
The Commission on the Future of Higher Education, appointed by Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, issued a draft report in June that comes down pretty …
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Baggage Line
Rush Limbaugh isn’t the only one being sniffed out for carrying innocent (though embarrass- ing) substances while flying back to the United States. On my …
Context Clues
One has to wonder about a press that only recently figured out – apparently because of a paper published in the journal Psychopharmacology – that …
Taking one for the Teamsters
The American, Canadian, and Mexican governments are planning to revamp existing interstates and highways to create a ten-lane superhighway running from Mexico to Canada. One …
Syd Barrett, R.I.P.
Now that it is complete, the life of Roger “Syd” Barrett can stand as rebuttal to the punk- rock cliche that “it’s better to bum …
Reefer Madness, Redux
Karl Marx, building on Hegel, noted that history repeats itself first as tragedy, and then as farce. Had he foreseen the War Against Pot, perhaps …
Earl Woods, R.I.P.
According to a 1997 biography, “Tiger” (written byJohn Strege, a sportswriter at my paper), Tiger Woods fell in love with golf at the ripe old …
It’s a Fair Cop
It is always wise to be cautious in commenting on a trial that one has not attended from start to finish. But from everything I …