There is a street near where I lived in Hong Kong a few years ago that I stumbled onto one day. I called it “Baccala Street” (Italian for salted, dried…
ECONOMICS
Some Labor Day ruminations from a former member of the following labor organizations: The International Brotherhood of Teamsters; The Rochester, New York Local of Hod Carriers; The California Faculty Association. [1]…
This land is your land, This land is my land From California, to the New York island; From the red wood forest, to the Gulf Stream waters This land was…
Two items from my radio this morning: 1. Mr. Ebbers, formerly CEO of WorldCom failed to convince a jury that he didn’t know the books were being cooked in…
A few years ago the last “Five and Dime” in San Diego closed its doors (it’s now a Payless Shoe store). I loved five and dimes when I was…
Despite the tenor of several recent essays it is not my intention to morph Dragon City Journal into a backdoor journal of moral philosophy. But it seems appropriate, in…
The neologism one hears more and more in these days of globalization is “out-sourcing.” You know, that’s when you send a job out to be done by somebody else,…