They Took the School, the Whole F***ing School
The Chronicle of Higher Education has a letter from Ernie Gibble, Senior Director of Global Communications at DeVry, Inc., entitled, "Attacks on Private-Sector Colleges Harm Students and Alumni." In...
View ArticleTake Two Ghiblis and Call Me in the Morning
I just dropped my son and 4 of his friends off at Hotel Transylvania, and went out for a bourbon. This was the first time I’ve ever done this. Was it the right thing to do? Will the boys be ok? Was it...
View ArticleMitt Romney's Heart of Darkness
"There was a vast amount of red—good to see at any time, because one knows that some real work is done in there, a deuce of a lot of blue, a little green, smears of orange, and, on the East Coast, a...
View ArticleCome on, sell it to me.
Whichever poet* wrote, “And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul,” was probably never in sales.If I force myself, I can remember the day when, with my new real estate...
View ArticleWhy I'm Not Thirsty for Republican Tears
I should have known I was a sap the day someone came into the bookstore I was working at near Fenway Park, stuck what he claimed was a gun into my face, and said, “Give me the money or I’ll blow your...
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