Howard Schultz returned to run Starbucks for the sole reason to stopping his company from unionizing. He was moderately successful here, but at a huge cost to his reputation. So two weeks before being
I recently watched one of my all-time favorite films, Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 film The Seventh Seal. This film is so well-known, because of playing chess with death if nothing else. I still find t
I think we’d all agree here that the filibuster is bad. But if the tool exists, you use it for the best aims you can and this state senator in Nebraska holding up the entire state’s politi
I don’t have enough knowledge on France to comment meaningfully on the protests against Macron’s dictatorial attempt to raise the retirement age in the country. My major thought about Fren
On March 19, 1917, the Supreme Court upheld the Adamson Act, passed the year before and which created the eight hour day on the railroad. This was a shocking decision that created the principle of the
The highlight of my musical life in the last two weeks was seeing Ramblin’ Jack Elliott perform at WOW Hall in Eugene, Oregon. Eugene is a pretty rough music town if you aren’t into jam ba
This is something I’ve talked about before, but here’s a good article on the overproduction of mezcal for the American market. The fact is that mezcal is not like, say, bourbon, where ther
The idiot Oregon rednecks tried to secede and join Idaho has gotten a bunch of play all of a sudden, first with a CNN piece and now from the Times. A quick overview from the latter for those of you no
