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‘humans are Cheaper’
I have already cited Robert Greenwald’s 2005 documentary The High Cost of Low Price as a source for viewing the “new dark side” of manufacturing as a sign of the impact of the “Wal-Mart economy” on manufacturing in this brave new world of...
Thought for the Day (so to Speak)
Jan Strupczewski has been covering the stalemate in negotiations between Greece and the European Union (EU) over the next stage in financing its debt. Things have now progressed to a point where one encounters the noun “default” in these dispatches. ...
Contemporary Coriolanus
Given that I spend almost no time at the movies any more, I have to confess that I was drawn to reading reviews of Coriolanus, the directorial debut of Ralph Fiennes, who also plays the leading role. Much has been made of how Shakespeare’s conception...
A Confrontation Between PBS And HBO?
Time (and possibly a sense of irony) should soon tell if Brian Wheeler’s piece for BBC News this morning, “The US cult of Downton Abbey,” was premature. Wheeler neglected to mention that, for those more interested in solid drama rather than ...
Why I Am Not (currently) Reading Jonathan Franzen
I always seem to have a built-in skepticism towards books other people try to persuade me to read. This is probably because Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid was forced on me in its pre-publication form by a colleague I otherwise respected;...
Redirecting the Attacks on Apple
This morning Larry Dignan used a post to the Between the Lines blog on ZDNet to give “equal time” to Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, in the face of the beating that Apple has been taking from two extended reports in The New York Times by Charles Duhigg,...
Counterproductive American Express
I have grown used to the fact that American Express provides me with a summary of all of my charges at the end of the year. I am pleased to see that I can now download that summary as a PDF; and this is definitely a good thing, because the “interactive”...
The Strategy of a Failed Candidate?
While my opinions of both CNN and TIME are best kept heavily muted, I continue to have a high opinion of Fareed Zakaria; and I am impressed that TIME has allowed him to pursue projects leading to articles that plumb far deeper than the usual superficiality...
