New Orleans Given all of the effort of the techies to promote the so-called “gig” economy and create a permanent class of part-time, on-call workers with few to no benefits, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that some of the big boys have already found loopholes allowing them escape clauses for compensating their …
Month: November 2015
Pleading for Player Power
New Orleans In the United States, from place to place, Thanksgiving comes with its own set of traditions enhanced by families and friends. One of my first Thanksgivings away from home while on my brief on and off collegiate tour, the details are now lost in the fog of memory, but somehow I ended …
What Goes Around, Comes Around, Even for Presidents like Wilson
New Orleans A saying with common currency in recent years has been, “haters gonna hate.” An old one that seems almost timeless from the later part of the last century is, “what goes around, comes around.” As a matter of long standing record, I’m rooting for campus protestors these days on the issues of race and …