As I write this morning, I’m on a train headed to Rhode Island (thank you, Amtrak, for coffee and wi-fi). In about an hour, I’ll be headed through New York City. A friend, upon hearing my travel plans, asked whether it would freak me out to be traveling through New York on the eleventh anniversary…
I’m still rubbing my eyes. I saw a breaking news tweet. I was sure it was wrong. A joke. A hoax. A hack. Something really from the Onion. But no, apparently it’s for real. Larry Flynt, the controversial publisher of the sexually explicit magazine Hustler, is “offering up to a million dollars in cash for…
I love the Olympics. I make no apologies. I love the whole spectacle from the tacky opening ceremonies to the lovefest that is the closing ceremonies. I’ve perched on the edge of my sofa, hoping for Michael Phelps to make history (even though the tape delay and CNN meant that I already knew) and I…
I wasn’t going to write this post. I thought about it long and hard and I had promised myself that I wouldn’t write it because I didn’t feel that I had anything meaningful to add to the conversation of the day. And I didn’t want to appear self-serving. And I didn’t want this to be…
Wal-Mart is the largest corporation in America, according to Fortune 500. According to Good Jobs First, Wal-Mart recently posted earnings of $350 billion in annual revenue and reported a profit of $11 billion (with a b). One thing is clear about Wal-Mart: they don’t like to spend money. My mom always said, “That’s how the…
