Should I send my child to school? We never ask this question.
Considering the low pay most citizens receive, it is nearly impossible to get along on just one parent’s income, so the school system is simply the only thing to do with your child while you’re at work. And, anyway, everybody else does it. What’s [...]
I know my last blog post was definitively titled “The End of Capitalism… for Beginners,” and, in a summary effort, it included ideas I’ve been blogging about for years, but, alas, I find I am still not done blogging on the matter. Before I get back to blogging about kombucha, education and poison ivy, I [...]
I stopped maturing in college. Other guys I know became men: businessmen, administrative men, corporate men, manly sportsy men,… Their culture is experiencing a bit of a dip in popularity right now, as many, having lost their jobs, are having trouble hanging onto their expensive/employment-defined personas. They are reverting, as it is, back to adolescence. [...]
There are a large number of US citizens, traditionally referred to as “Middle Americans,” who are engaged in small, private industry-jobs that have an uncertain future and that live and die on the prospects of a marketplace that is unhindered by taxes and government regulation. Even if they live in a rental unit, they live [...]
A guy I know–we’ll call him Fred–told me yesterday evening the economy seems to be turning. Of course, I thought he was considering himself informed by Monday’s stock market rise, but, no, for Fred it all seemed to come down to Fed Chair, Ben Bernanke’s recent claim that things would improve by the end of [...]
Motormanmark.com’s guest blogger for this month is NYTimes columnist, David T Brooks:
A Recovery War by David T Brooks
The challenge we are facing is far greater than suspected by even many of those who think about the economy for a living.
Last week, Paul Krugmann and I were conferencing with Roy G. Biv, our stalwart editor, and [...]
I am currently going through some problems with my job that make me feel unloved. Can you relate? I ask, very sincerely, why? Why must we all be attached to jobs that fail to reward us emotionally, but which seek our emotional sweat equity?
Couldn’t there be a job out there that threatens me not [...]
Another scoop for the blogosphere! Here, Motormanmark.com presents a web exclusive: what is alleged to be the first draft of President-Elect Barack Obama’s planned inaugural address, to be delivered at the White House on January 20, 2009. This document was secretly appropriated from the office of Roy G. Biv, Chairman for the Obama Transition Team.
Fellow [...]
