Cruise Control
I remember watching a demonstration on television several years ago, in which an automobile parallel parked itself at the touch of a button. It…
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Welcome Back
About 10 years ago, we began to think that we could see the writing on the wall. Electronic commerce would gradually replace conventional brick-and-mortar…
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Slow Train Coming
Well, it’s finally over. As a nation, we were obsessed by a single news story for the past two years. The election of a…
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Being There
Phrases become clichés for a reason, that they somehow capsulize a thought that would otherwise require a lot more words to convey. Each generation…
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Sound and Fury
by Kevin Fahy When I was in college, an English professor of mine once told my class a story from his own college days…
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Trade Off
by Kevin Fahy The unemployment rate in the United States is now below five percent, the lowest it has been since the financial…
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Stuck in the Middle with You
by Kevin Fahy Well, here we are again, stuck in the middle of a presidential election year. It’s the ninth (and likely the…
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Teach Your Children
On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guard troops fired into a crowd of students at Kent State University, killing four and wounding nine. It…
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Golden Oldies
A number of years ago I was browsing through a bookstore looking for something to read when I saw a sign advertising a new Robert…
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All Shook Up
When I was a little boy, we didn’t have organized leagues for youth football, or what a lot of people refer to by the…
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