Tag: economy
-
Piercing the Corporate Veil, A Study in Bayhem, Bubbles, Box of Pox, and Suddenly Poor
The Hobby Lobby Supreme Court case creep and speculation continue. Now there’s some rumblings among some who are supposedly more law-savvy than I am about this close bond between a corporation’s “religion” and the religion of the people who run it may be an exploitable tear in the corporate veil that protects those who run…
-
Authenticity, Spooked, For the Love of Villains, Poor Decisions Make the News, and Taking Risks
One of the articles today talks about how keeping our kids super safe may actually be doing them more harm than good. It raised the question in the comment thread of just how much has the world changed since I was a kid? On a macro level, sure, lots of changes–we’ve got no more Soviet Union…
-
My Generation, Celebrity Humor, Cute Overload, World Goth Day, Jobs, and Job Numbers
As Gen X hits its collective mid-life crisis, we wade through a country that’s undergoing a political crisis. More extreme views appear to the left and right of a seemingly silent (and often bewildered) center. That polarization causes wild swings–accentuated by whatever will bring the media the most eyeballs or ears–causes more of a feeling…
-
Some stuff from the weekend and more
I’m running exceptionally later than planned tonight. In between doing stuff at work during the day and up until about ten minutes before I’m typing this, I’ve been involved, on and off, in two completely awesome discussions over in my FB stream. One’s been about faith, religion, and atheists, the other has been on people…