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Tucked away in the recent Congressional spending bill is, believe it or not, a provisions that allows truck drivers to drive for up to 82 hours a week, double the working hours of ordinary office workers. And with no overtime! This is a sign of things to come. The Republicans loath all regulation, and this …
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A recent poll found that 49% of Britons consider over-attentive waiters the most annoying aspect of eating out, while 34% cited “uncaring” waiting staff as their biggest gripe; 41% of customers said they’d write about a bad experience on social media before even leaving the restaurant (ah! a practical example of social media improving our …
My very best greetings! In the days of Epicurus a philosopher was not some dry academic in a university, parsing the inner meaning of words, but someone everyone came to listen to, to ask questions of, to debate with. Today we are used to one-way media and entertainment that we cannot participate in. Nothing wrong …
Five years ago at the beginning of the US shale oil revolution, drillers started to load up on debt to fund their operations and acquire new acreage, as vast areas of North America started to open up for exploration. There has been a spectacular rise in US oil and gas output. Latest estimates suggest that by …
So, humor me. Let me recount a silly, sexist, inappropriate story, sent me my cousin, who is a journalist. The Ventriloquist and the Blond A young ventriloquist is touring Sweden and, one night, he’s doing a show in a small fishing town. With his dummy on his knee, he starts going through his usual “dumb …
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