January 7th in Ohio doesn’t usually bring with it 50 degree weather – but this year it did and that meant the bike path was full of bikers and walkers, the tennis courts even had people in shorts. We took advantage of it and headed off on a nice long walk with the dogs in [...]
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Northstar is officially a Columbus institituion, having grown from a location in the Short North to having locations in Beechwald and Easton as well as opening Third & Hollywood in Grandview. Northstar does a great job of mixing genres, combining simple with upscale, quality with casual, and mixing healthy with not so much. One of [...]
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So you probably know that we in the US are part of the WTO, part of NAFTA and that we are generally liberalizing our trade (our tariffs today are really low compared to back when we were protectionist). That’s why its so crazy to learn about all the crazy distinctions in tariffs on goods imported [...]
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I grew up with plenty of losing sports teams in Cleveland, Ohio. For decades it was the norm and I was fortunate to happen in time when the Indians got hot for more then half a decade. Additionally I was alive for some good cavs team (although I was young), but then Jordan got in [...]
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Yesterday was earth day and while many of us might have done nothing to celebrate the earth, I did some reading (well most online magazines and news sources tended to put up a few articles so maybe they were forced upon me – heck if Google hadn’t done an earth day image I might not [...]
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Thats what analysts seem to have been saying and traders in the wake of yesterdays upset best picture win for Crash which was produced by independent film company Lionsgate, who in in trading today saw their shares rise, as sales of the movie are predicted to rise. (see story)
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So it looks like we can possibly get ready for the first potential challenge to Roe v. Wade to begin trickling towards the new Roberts court. South Dakota’s new law banning most abortions is vying for the attention by being first (see story). All the attention over the legalization of abortions reminds me of an [...]
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A while back I watched with great interest a show about Mario Batali on the Food Network, about the creation of his and his partners’ new restaurant in NY. The show was a bit over the top at stressing how busy Mario was, (flying to book signings in Chicago and all over, making a line [...]
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At least thats the opinion of economist Tim Harford in an article in Slate. As you may know I generally like his pieces, and this one does teach the problem of allowing individuals to decide if they should rebuild in places like the 9th ward, and how the decending spiral of New Orelans that already [...]
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So finally got through the week, which wouldn’t have been so long if I hadn’t been sick. Being sick allowed me to taste test chicken noodle soups, and the winner so far among Cambells Chunky and Progresso was hands down progresso, maybe I’ll put the whole write up here. What spurred me to write now [...]
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