Category: economics

  • The Annual Lottery

    Iā€™m going to say this plain as day to all the people out there religiously playing the lottery, hoping for the big win. If your income is right up there next to Nothing and his friends Nada, Zilch, Zero and Cero, you might want to cease and desist with the Quick Picks. Now, what I…

  • Company Sponsored Obesity: To Blacks With Love

    Some weeks ago, my son phoned to ask that I bring home a bottle of Williamson Bros. BBQ Sauce, a sauce we’d tried at Whole Foods that the family seemed to like. “Well, I’m not at Whole Foods,” I responded. “I saw it in Publix, too,” he said. I cocked my mental eyebrow and told…

  • Can’t See the Trees for the Forest

    I always thought the saying “I can’t see the forest for the trees” wasn’t always a good way to observe life, and today I’m convinced. Lemme explain that. Around the nation, people have somehow been convinced that Libya deserves to be invaded by European interests due to civil strife; civil meaning a rife between neighbors.…