Stop Internet Censorship

We’ve spent a lot of time here discussing bad behavior by employers; now let’s discuss the bad behavior of employees. Despite the twin destructive forces of greed and insensitivity that constantly work together to gum up the corporate works, sometimes a particular corporate policy...

The Humble Thanks Of A Grateful Nation

While all public practicing artists are subject to the freely-given opinions of others regarding the quality and sensitivity of their work— the vox populi, and the collective voice of our audience and the market— I find myself instinctively recoiling when anyone appoints himself or herself the mo...

Lately everyone seems to be freaking out about the current state of things in our economy, as if surprised. They shouldn’t be. History shows it’s all cyclical: every hundred years another world-dominating empire rises, and this is what happens to it. The imaginary perfect postwar...

We’ve all heard the truism: “If ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Which brings to mind a rather pernicious type of office mismanagement that consistently sabotages businesses and shatters the office tranquility of productive workers everywhere: I call it MANAGERIAL...

I’ve attended my share of business seminars, but the most weirdly-fascinating have been conventions devoted to the business side of some creative art form— publishing, film, or other creative media. In those cases the business folk (“the suits”) and the artists themselves t...

At this time of the year we are granted a brief 24-hour respite between a month-long bombardment of carvable rigid foam pumpkins and gratuitously gory plastic arms and decapitated heads, and the awesome onrushing juggernaut of the approaching Christmas holiday season. And what a juggernaut it...