Economics

A guest post by Danny Martin — “Going to college is a dream that promises intellectual excitement and creative thinking,” Jerry Brown said in a statement. “The Dream Act benefits us all by giving top students a chance to improve their lives and the lives of all of us.” This is so true, just not for undocumented immigrants. We all want to work with people that are…

Baseball purists – and sports purists, for that matter – hate the fact that business drives so many decisions in Major League Baseball. However, one decision MLB’s league office can’t directly control is which teams ascend to the World Series. The MLB has been beat up during this postseason with each successive Red Sox, Phillies, and Yankees loss. Each of those teams bring their army of passionate fans…

Today marks the one-month anniversary of the launch of the Occupy Wall Street protests. Among other concerns, the unifying issues are social and economic inequality, corporate greed, and the convoluted relationship of corporate money, lobbyists, and the government. Although the protests have been largely dismissed by conservative media as extremist and even anti-American, these demonstrations have expanded to…

As a coffee drinker and tenured desk jockey, I have often felt I made the office coffee more than my fair share. However, everyone seems to complain equally about those people who take the last cup or leave a half cup for the next person, which makes me wonder, am I one of “those people”? After all, degenerate gnomes don’t infiltrate the breakroom and poor out the coffee, so someone must be to blame, right?