| Jun 28, 2010 | Economy / BusinessGood news, people. General Motors has turned a profit! However, there’s bad news, too: GM’s top executives are insane. By which I mean bonkers, loopy, bull-goose crazy. How else to explain the carmaker’s recent effort to rebrand Chevy, one of the...
| Mar 1, 2010 | Economy / BusinessThere’s an apology epidemic. If it’s not a corporate executive (Akiro Toyoda) then it’s an athlete (Tiger Woods, Mark McGuire) or a politician (Mark Sanford, John Edwards). People seem to require it; I don’t know why. It reminds me of A...
| Feb 1, 2010 | Food / FarmingFire hydrants deserve more respect. These utilitarian and ubiquitous icons of America’s urban landscape are rarely noticed by anyone but dogs—and they give hydrants no respect whatsoever. Worse, though, a brand-name corporation now intends to lift its leg...
| Jan 18, 2010 | Economy / BusinessIn Alice in Wonderland, Humpty Dumpty declares: “When I use a word, it means what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.” Well, get ready to tumble down the semantic rabbit-hole again, for giant corporations are trying to co-opt the meaning of one of...
