Tariffic News?
When Donald Trump announced his grandiose plan for trade tariffs on April 2, 2025 some people cringed, others cheered, and a few called their lawyers. One of those was Rick Woldenberg, the CEO of a family-owned company in Vernon Hills, Illinois a suburb of Chicago. His firm, Learning Resources, outsources
Better With Age
Are you getting better with age? The question came up for me watching Tom Brady’s virtuoso performance in the Super Bowl. He threw for over
Stealing Signs
Chris Correa, an employee of the St. Louis Cardinals Major League Baseball team, hacked into the computer system of the Houston Astros. Over a period
Your Neighbor in the Mobile Home
I had never been in a trailer park before, at least that I can remember, but I have watched episodes of Netflix’s Trailer Park Boys,
Can’t Think of Anything
I’ve started this piece several times over the last two weeks, and each time I got deflected and went on to something else like eating,
My Syrian Driver
Last weekend I took a Uber downtown. After a few minutes of chit chat, my driver told me he was an immigrant from Syria who
Have a Good Password?
Maybe the pen is mightier than the sword, or so it seems in the worlds of crime and, lately, politics. What with the Russians hacking