Archive for March, 2007
Econamici: Stumbling on Happiness, by Daniel Gilbert
My mother is eighty-six. Other than needing a walker, she’s in good shape. Two months ago my father fell, confining him to bed on the top floor of their three-story townhouse. With my encouragement, my parents put a deposit on an apartment in Grand Oaks, a posh “assisted living” complex for well-to-do Washingtonians. But as ...Read more.
It's the lawsuit rebate scam!
And the beneficiary isn’t necessarily who you’d expect. Over at LiveJournal, schlomoseamus explains just who benefits from class action lawsuits. It’s not consumers—the corporations that are sued are allowed to compensate consumers “through substitution of services that they already provide.” And it’s not corporations, who get off easy that way. Who wins, then? Visit schlomoseamus ...Read more.
D&S author Robert Drago guest-blogging at Washington Post
Young women seeking success in both career and family life are often advised to find men who cook and employers with family-friendly policies. Where has this advice taken us? As I find in Striking a Balance, the advice helped some, but the strategy was generally a failure. [Now] our advice to young women should be ...Read more.
More on news quality and media profits
In print in Mother Jones this month, more on the realization that newsroom staffing is good for the mainstream media’s profits as well as content: It’s not the Internet that’s killing newspapers. It’s the equity-chasing investors and their friends at the FCC who have put outsize profits before a free press. The blogs have been ...Read more.
If guards organize, the terrorists win.
The Associated Press reports today that “Bush and his Senate allies will kill an antiterror bill if Congress sends it to the White House with a provision to let airport screeners unionize, the White House and 36 Republicans said yesterday.” Bush et al’s argument is that unionized TSA screeners would pose a threat to national ...Read more.
