our own Jeff Woodmansee, who received his Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science yesterday from the University of North Texas. With two daughters, ages 1 and 2, and a full-time job, getting his degree was certainly no picnic, but…
Tiiiiiiiiiiime is on my side (Yes, it is)
[I promise a Mark Martin-free weekend, if only because I’m kind of sick of talking about him, but you’ll have to indulge me one more Martin-related post. –Ed.] After my last three posts, I did not expect a warm and…
"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.
Wednesday night, as I was writing the two posts that went up yesterday, I sort of assumed that the gap between the first post and the second post would be filled with a deafening silence from the Secretary of State’s…
"Habit rules the unreflecting herd." –Wm. Wordsworth
I’m not exactly breaking new sociological ground when I say that we humans are creatures of habit. We do the same things, at roughly the same time, on a roughly regular basis. You might not be able to set your…
Dude, Where's My (State-Owned) Car?
The rumor, according to a current employee of the Secretary of State’s Office (who, for obvious reasons, wishes to remain anonymous), was that the office had purchased the 2010 Ford Escape Hybrid due to its above average gas mileage, which…
The De-Regulation Bamboozle
If you were to ask your basic, stereotypical CEO crybaby, such as Jamie Dimon, what the biggest threat to freedom is, they would undoubtedly answer “regulation.” Because, you know, there’s nothing worse than asking corporations play by the rules. But…