Posted in Business, Society, tagged age discrimination, employee, job, management, retrain on January 28, 2006 | No Comments »
Sound familiar? You lose your job and The Man, from his paneled office, says, don’t worry. There are plenty of jobs out there. Just retrain.
In my case, as in many, management was missing the point. I didn’t want to retrain. I had thirty years invested in printing and publishing and that’s where I wanted to [...]
Posted in Law, Society, tagged execution, Tookie, victims on December 13, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Stanley “Tookie” Williams was sentenced to death in 1981 for the murders of four individuals. 1981. That’s twenty-four more years of life, of clemency, than his victims got.
Posted in George Bush, Immigration, International, Politics, Society, tagged illegal immigration on November 29, 2005 | No Comments »
I should have known it was too good to be true. That twinge of optimism I felt after President Bush’s speech yesterday was dashed within an hour. It seems his idea of “temporary” (as in “temporary worker” 
is up to six years.
No, no, Mr. President. Temporary should be more like two or three months, long [...]
Posted in George Bush, Immigration, International, Politics, Society, tagged amnesty, illegal immigration on November 28, 2005 | No Comments »
President George Bush just completed a speech on immigration, and he finally managed to say something convincing and worthwhile. In fact, he said a lot of things convincingly: he’ll stop illegal immigration; build physical barriers where needed; implement rapid deportation of all illegals we catch; not grant amnesty to illegal immigrants; require immigrants to abide [...]
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