Gulf Shores Every 10 years we go camping in Wyoming in the Snowy Range Mountains outside of Laramie where I was born, but not this year. Two kids working who can’t get the time off, needing to spend time with my mother, and worrying about money like the rest of America, we found ourselves driving …
Category: Personal Writings
Crippling Shipping
Gulf Shores To see an article in the NYT calling globalization into question because of rising fuel prices must have left Thomas Friedman’s collar sweating in the editorial pages, but there it was right on the front page. Lord, they were even talking about “neighborhood economics” (which is not quite what we think of as …
Wal-Mart Ready
Gulf Shores A front page story in the Wall Street Journal trumpeted the fact that Wal-Mart has been training supervisors throughout the stores where they manage more than 1-million workers as the country’s largest private sector employer in their anti-union message now more finely calibrated not to the generalized fear of unions but to the …