Pat Robertson, Christian television evangelist and ex-Baptist minister, created quite the controversy when he advised that a married man, dating another woman because his wife was suffering from Alzheimer’s, should “divorce and start all over.” I try not to involve myself with the musings of offensive radio hosts, nor do I think it’s wise to judge another person’s …
Monthly Archives: September 2011
A Lesson On Love, Family and Alzheimer's
Pat Robertson, Christian television evangelist and ex-Baptist minister, created quite the controversy when he advised that a married man, dating another woman because his wife was suffering from Alzheimer’s, should “divorce and start all over.” I try not to involve myself with the musings of offensive radio hosts, nor do I think it’s wise to judge another person’s …
The college dropout bubble
Did you know that every year $4 billion is lost due to college dropouts? The number comes from lost income and compounds every year with new dropouts adding to the roll call. It’s an interesting statistic that highlights a problem in education. One that I call the college dropout bubble, but unlike most bubbles this …
Apple gestures…quietly revolutionary
Do you use Apple gestures, have you even heard of them? I was first introduced to them in January of 2008, when I became hipster #1 and bought the first MacBook Air. Now, three years and eight months later I am still barely using them. Of the available fourteen there are only three I regularly …
Jobs, jobs, jobs (are they created by politicians?)
This morning I created 150,000 jobs. I put into motion a plan to support small business and fix healthcare. Don’t believe me? It turns out you shouldn’t believe the politicians either. It’s obvious that Obama is struggling with job creation. His main Republican opponents, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney, are playing that against him. Both …
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How I spent my summer by Amy Senger
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it …
A note on salads
I have been agitating for a while that supermarkets sell the worst kind of food. I even go so far as to say that everything they sell makes you fat. Which consistently causes folks to disagree with me, after all 98% of Americans buy their food from them. But, that means they have a complete …
Farmers markets grow 250% since 2000
Even during the recession growth is surging with markets up 164%. If this trend continues we may finally be able to impact our food system.
Do young Americans want to work?
As in, get a job? Despite all the haranguing on our economy and jobs market, why aren’t we talking more about the massive labor imbalance in our country? A recent Rutgers University survey of 571 Americans who graduated from college between 2006 and 2010 found that only 53% held full-time jobs. And yet, it’s not hard to …
10 years after 9/11, have we changed?
US oil consumption has remained steady since 2000 when it was 19.7 million barrels of oil/day. In recent years a slight dip has occurred maybe due to the recession or due to structural changes (improved car MPG), and is now at 19.2.