August 12, 2010
Education
Three teachers helped spark something in me that made my education worth something. I wasn’t a very studious student in grade school or high school. I didn’t have much in the way of study habits. But I got lucky because...
August 11, 2010
The Last Frontiersman
The last line in the New York Times obituary is classic: “I didn’t lose my temper. I know right where it is.” That was all you really needed to know about Ted Stevens, who at times could be very unpleasant....
August 10, 2010
Golf, Taxes, Jobs
About twelve years ago, Mike Kaiser started construction on a golf course in southern Oregon called Bandon Dunes. Kaiser, a former greeting card company owner turned mogul, had a vision of exporting a piece of Scotland into the Oregon coastline....
August 6, 2010
Re-Regulate the Airlines
Five minutes. That was the amount of time that my connecting flight had to wait to allow me to get off my plane that was two hours late because of a weather delay. Five minutes. How is that for customer...