Recent weeks and months have provided several reminders of how often people lie with their jobs. Priests, lawyers, policemen, doctors, parking enforcers, tax collectors: guardians of ethical and lawful behavior, with power that comes from standing … [Continue reading]
Snow. Snow. More snow. Disasters can bring out the best in people, but our wintry circumstances here in The City That Loves You Back have not gotten that bad yet. We’ve not had that much snow in Philadelphia. But while “record-breaking” … [Continue reading]
The promise of a free market is that you can get ahead with hard work and sound investment. In other words, you need your hard-earned money (or “working capital”) to make more money. But if you’re not earning enough to have money left over in … [Continue reading]
There is always some let down when the holidays are over. With snow and ice and the coldest day Philadelphia has seen in awhile “on tap” for later today, the outlook can seem pretty bleak when you don’t bring some lightheartedness into it. The … [Continue reading]
It’s the time of year to tally up what we’ve accomplished and what we haven’t, what we might have done differently, or not at all. Perhaps because of that, Todd May contributed an op-ed to the New York Times a few days ago in which he pondered the … [Continue reading]
