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12.25.2008 5:00 pm

Christmas and the failure of greed

Like a gift from the Magi it arrived, just in time to soothe a tortured soul searching for a theme for a Christmas essay. The headline on the press release read:
“Why Christmas Should Be More Commercial.”
The subhead, or secondary, headline, read:
“Christmas…

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12.23.2008 9:01 pm

Christmas on the cusp

The girl and her parents went to see Santa Claus this year, just like always. But this time was different. This time, she said, she wasn’t going to sit on Santa’s lap.

Her old man really should have seen it coming.…

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12.05.2008 9:00 am

More bad economic news. What does it mean to you?

This AP story reports scary figures from the Labor Department. (Go here for the NYT the story.) More than 533,000 jobs were cut in November, the highest in 34 years, according to the story. NPR reported this morning that the Big Three…

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