Over 80% of Americans work in jobs that require little to no physical activity, and the effects are starting to show. From a growing trend in obesity to unprecedented stress levels to a growth in heart disease, the question arises: is work killing you?
In which lawyers become strippers…and news becomes tabloid trash.
September 14, 2011 by
In the category of weird legal news, we have this: “Lawyer turned stripper to pay the bills.” (No, we don’t have pictures to prove it, and by “it” I mean that she is a stripper, or a lawyer, either, for that matter…and just like that, 99% of the readers who found this blog while Googling […]
A post in which a businessman feeds himself to a shark, er, lawyer.
June 17, 2011 by
You own a small business. You provide a service or a product. Then one day, you get a letter. No, it’s not a letter of gratitude from a happy client. Actually, it is just the opposite. Somewhere along the way, one of your well-meaning employees messed up on a job. It caused a lot of […]
Does government spending have a multiplier effect on the economy?
January 26, 2011 by
If I didn’t lose you with that wonk-ish sounding title, there’s a good possibility I’ll lose you a little later, so let me summarize: new research suggests that government spending doesn’t actually help the economy all that much. Bear with me as I explain. Some economists of the Keynesian persuasion believe that in a recession […]
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