Remember capitalism? Market a needed product at a fair price and treat your workers well enough that they remain loyal. That formula is so dead.
Twenty Years Without Change
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The Little Things
I cooked Saturday’s dinner on the grill, in part to keep the kitchen cooler, and, well I like to grill. Nothing elaborate, just boneless chicken, sourdough bread buttered and garlicked, broccoli, and, cut-up fruit. Still, the base meal cost around Read More …
American Con Games
The frail looking white haired woman waited, in the airline’s wheelchair, for pre-boarding for the flight from Houston to St. Louis. She never smiled as the young airline worker took her onto the jet. At Lambert the woman again had Read More …
Moonlight and Fireflies
The full moon cast shadows while hundreds upon hundreds of fireflies lit up the tangle of brush next to the creek. My late evening walk Wednesday night took me down Cliff Cave Road, towards the park. I walked that area Read More …
“Can’t anybody here play this game?” – Casey Stengel, 1962
An expansion team given the Big Apple to offset the loss of the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers to California, the New York Metropolitans (AKA Mets) began play in 1962. The Mets not only lost 120 games out of Read More …
The Second Big Lie
These governors embrace communism: everyone must work and we will control how much they get paid and where they work. Forced collectivization and industrialization worked so well for Stalin, it must be Missouri’s best answer too.