Crassing Your Teas

Crassing Your Teas

It’s long been a traditional introductory rite for college students to serve internships at prestigious firms to gain invaluable real-life experience, potentially leading to future employment. Such internships— paid and unpaid— are a well-established part of the...
Black Listing

Black Listing

I recently read the outraged complaint of a frustrated job-seeker describing the job interview process for “an entry-level program coordinator position.” Said process consisted of two phone interviews, after which selected candidates must travel to the...
Comic Relief

Comic Relief

Want to know what’s really going on, and why? “Follow the money” advises the mysterious Watergate whistleblower Hal Holbrook in the 1972 film All the President’s Men, a technique that works pretty well. And sure, following the money might...
Life of Pie

Life of Pie

A few words about our ever-useful (if sometimes ravenous) economic system, upon which rest the hopes and well being of the Western world: The god of capitalism is profit. In a capitalist environment, if a business venture of any kind wishes to survive, it must face...
Monkey See

Monkey See

So yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the federal lawsuit Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association (OSGATA) et al v. Monsanto, throwing it out of court. By doing so, all of the lower court rulings regarding those issues were upheld, meaning our old...