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Yesterday's Nicholas Kristof column is a must-read for the anti-globalization, anti-trade, left-wing fringe. I've written before that cheap labor is the most valuable resource of many poor nations, and Kristof vividly illustrates this point. Cambodia has a fair trade system and promotes itself as an enlightened garment producer. That's great. But if the U.S. tries […]

Carol Moseley Braun has decided to drop out of the race for the Democrat presidential nomination and endorse Howard Dean. My first thought: She wants a job -- probably another cushy ambassadorship. So, the big question is what does Dean gain from Moseley Braun's endorsement? After all, the latest polls show she has a following […]

Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich was making the rounds of the various talk shows last night commenting on former Bush Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's recent revelations. (For the record: On O'Neill, I'm skeptical of much of what he apparently claims in the book by Ron Suskind. For a roundup on various inconsistencies between some […]

The New York Times is reporting that Geltzer, a bankruptcy trustee for the now-defunct magazine Lingua Franca has been sending letters to freelance writers threatening to sue them if they don't return fees they received in return for articles they wrote. Joanna Smith Rakoff, a writer who worked as a Web editor and wrote for […]

My Christmas gift from my sister and brother-in-law was the DVD Pop Culture edition of Trivial Pursuit. We played it the other night and, unsurprisingly, I won. The thing that troubled me was the fact that both my parents and my sister and brother-in-law were dismayed by the fact that I knew the name of […]

After sitting in Dept. 31 of the Superior Court in Vista, Calif., for eight hours I was unceremoniously dismissed from jury duty without answering a single question during voir dire. They rounded up 60 of us for a civil case that was anticipated to last about a month. The case involved, as far as the […]

Blogging will likely be limited Tuesday as I report at 8 a.m. (also known as "way too early") for jury duty. I will not be using these excuses, but I present to you two surefire statements that will get you tossed off any potential jury. For a criminal trial: "The police wouldn't have arrested him […]

Users of the latest version of Adobe Photoshop, aka Photoshop CS, have discovered a "feature" of the software that prevents them from opening files that have images of currency. Adobe and other makers of image-manipulation programs have, at the behest of a little-known group of national banks, inserted secret technology into their programs to foil […]

It seems as though there was some misrepresentation in CBS News' "60 Minutes" feature on former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill. The Wall Street Journal's John Fund also has some analysis of Paul O'Neill and his "issues."

Yesterday a Republican managed to trigger the infamous Howard Dean temper. Ungerer, wearing a T-shirt bearing the words "Mr Fix It," rose to his feet and condemned what he called the incivility of the campaign and the political press. He suggested Dean and the other Democratic candidates stop "tearing down your neighbor" and cut their […]