by Art Smith
This story (page 1 of Friday’s WSJ) takes the cake. And it’s the last line that sums up why I’m frustrated by it: We just want to make it [English] a little easier to spell. Changing the spelling of words to be phonetically exacting is just wrong. ...
by Art Smith
So, there’s this state that thinks foundations with $250 million in assets or more should to provide reports on the gender orientation and ethnicity of their boards and staffs, and the boards and staffs of the charities they support. And to what extent they are...
by Art Smith
I’ll admit that my experience in parenting is lame. My 15-year-old niece spent a year in our home. Our appreciation for parents skyrocketed within a week. That said, I think we have significant challenges in raising a generation of people in our society that...
by Art Smith
Thunderstorms, hail, and tornadoes have been running rampant across Iowa and other parts of the Midwest. In Iowa, the town of Parkersburg has suffered substantially severe damage. It sounds pretty bad. 5 dead so far there, and 2 others in New Hartford. Here in West...
by Art Smith
10 years ago, I would never have imagined myself saying the following: “Yes, I think I could make a mint renting clothes to business travelers in major cities so they don’t have to pay for checked luggage.” “I’d rather run the old...
by Billy Beck
As if the recent cyclone disaster in Myanmar wasn’t bad enough, now comes word of a 7.9 magnitute earthquake in China that has killed more than eight thousand people including many schoolchildren still buried under rubble over the weekend. This earthquake was...