The Webinar

The Webinar

Lately everyone seems to be freaking out about the current state of things in our economy, as if surprised. They shouldn’t be. History shows it’s all cyclical: every hundred years another world-dominating empire rises, and this is what happens to it. The...
The Kimota Café

The Kimota Café

I’ve attended my share of business seminars, but the most weirdly-fascinating have been conventions devoted to the business side of some creative art form— publishing, film, or other creative media. In those cases the business folk (“the suits”) and...
Happy Fun Staple Battle Time

Happy Fun Staple Battle Time

So… has anyone else but me noticed that our whole economic system is about to take a massive dump because our politics are so partisan that no one can do anything to fix it? A few weeks ago I watched in awestruck amazement as the highly-touted Congressional...
We Have Assumed Direct Control

We Have Assumed Direct Control

The standard of living for Americans has fallen farther over the past three years than at any time since the US government began recording it five decades ago. The recession is technically over but salaries and revenues continue to suffer. Meanwhile the banking...
Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving

At this time of the year we are granted a brief 24-hour respite between a month-long bombardment of carvable rigid foam pumpkins and gratuitously gory plastic arms and decapitated heads, and the awesome onrushing juggernaut of the approaching Christmas holiday season....