by Leah McGrath Goodman | Jul 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
A reader requested I write about the inevitable zombie apocalypse. Very well then. I do not ascribe zombies to the rise of the Tea Party, the Gang of Six, or today’s call by euro-zone chiefs for a “selective default” on the Greek debt. Although that...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Jul 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
‘I was being sued…it upset me.’A midlife crisis can take many forms. Cheating on your spouse. Purchasing a Maserati. Wearing Billabong. Buying into The Lynx Effect. Just being a jerk. But putting up an “execution” list on your Web site...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Jul 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
. So there’s this small issue of the world being debt-ridden and nobody hiring and the delicate financial machinery of our country breaking down in a way that can only be called utterly embarrassing. This is not altogether bad news. For those who have long been...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Jul 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
This week we discovered almost all the cash that was inside the U.S. is now outside the U.S. But guess what we still have in spades? Self-regard. In fact, a recent story in the New Yorker cited young Americans as having some of the lowest maths and English scores in...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Jul 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
There is a time to wear a headband and a time not to wear a headband. Some would say it is best not to wear a headband outside kindergarten. But if you’re in Istanbul to consider offering the full thrust of free world legitimacy to the Libyan rebels, why...
