In The Spotlight

National

A Woman Scorned…

This post is about abortion. Viewer discretion is advised… When is abortion NOT controversial, so I felt it was necessary to open with the equivalent of a movie black screen MPAA warning… you’ve been warned… The right to have an abortion was decided via Roe v Wade on January 22, 1973 by a 7-2 vote […]

Consumer

Arby’s Had the Meats…

Why can’t chicken restaurants just sell chicken? To that end, Arby’s is now making burgers. But not just any burger… a wagyu burger.  Before I get into what wagyu is, I want to talk about Arby’s… and Burger King… and Dominos Pizza. Everyone is trying to diversify. But is it working? So wagyu beef is […]

Diversity

White Hot: The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch

This is a documentary more than a film and I’d like to treat it as such with a full feature account of its contents as opposed to a review of the quality of the production. There are no actors with whom a performance needs to be dissected and no story to be told with color. […]

Consumer

Have a Margarita

My introduction to tequila was in a dive college bar in the form of a shot glass. Not a lot of quality attached to that experience… It was more than 10 years later that I took a minute to consider – tequila, like all other spirits has a top shelf too. It happened in New […]

Markets

It’s Actually Not a Dollar…

Did you know that all dollar stores don’t sell item exclusively for a dollar? Like most consumers, it is natural to believe that a store with the word DOLLAR in its name means everything is a dollar. But it really means everything in the store is economical like a dollar… Let me explain… There are […]


 
 
 

 

Guns and Violence

Over a three month period, we had three mass, public shootings: The Colorado movie theatre shooting, the mall shooting in Minnesota and most tragically, the elementary school shooting in Connecticut. Parents, teachers, communit...
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The Fiscal Cliff 2012

Another fiscal cliff; Didn’t we do this a few years ago? I guess to be fair, the actual issue was raising the debt ceiling – this go-‘round it’s reducing the budget in an effort to avoid raising the debt ceiling aga...
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Re-elected

The country has spoken… President Barack Obama has been re-elected to a second term as President of the United States of America. Election 2012 is finally over. And that was painful. The House and the Senate remain mostly...
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