Smith & Wesson misfires
Smith & Wesson is recalling handguns that may just go off by themselves. “Smith & Wesson has identified a condition … which may permit a round to be discharged without the trigger being...
View ArticleOne of my favorite tricks
Whenever a company blows like a head gasket on a Chyrsler Sebring, I enjoy going back in the archives and seeing what the CEO said in conference calls, press releases and television interviews. There...
View ArticleThe Blob that ate the Gulf of Mexico
Louisianna fisherman George Barisich called it early on: The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will keep growing and growing like that thing in the 1958 sci-fi flick The Blob. Click here to read my...
View ArticleBP’s Hayward is haywired
Some say BP stands for “British Polluters.” Other’s say “Being Pummelled.” After watching BP CEO Tony Hayward’s videos, I think it stands for “Bumbling Professor.” Hayward, who has a doctorate degree...
View ArticleSince when is digging a pit a bad thing?
Back from Montana, I just had to write something on the Berkeley Pit, a giant pool of toxic waste that the Butte chamber of commerce has remarkably turned into a tourism attraction. Click here to read...
View ArticleHelicopter parents disrupt ball game
Too many parents are an embarrassment while their children are on the game field. Image you are the starting catcher in a high school baseball team in Bergen County, N.J. and your game is interrupted...
View ArticleHe’ll never get another loan in this town again
Celebrity chef Mario Batali has apologized for comparing bankers to Stalin and Hitler. It’s never a good idea to compare anyone to Stalin or Hitler, who occupy a class of evil unto themselves. If...
View ArticleGet your crane boom off my hotel room
Where did I plan to ride out Hurricane Sandy? In a 40th floor hotel room that just happened to be below this collapsed crane. My wife and I were evacuated from Le Parker Meridien hotel just as the...
View ArticleGap has a gap in handling confidential files
Information isn’t safe: Not even when it’s transmitted the old-fashioned way. A Massachusetts man ordered a tie and a pocket square from Banana Republic. What he got instead was a package from the...
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