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From AS re my bit in the Dec. 22 issue about bad business-management ideas

January 2, 2024 · 1 min read

“In my business, I would choose an Employee of the Month, every month. The staff had to park their cars in a lot away from our building. The reward for being Employee of the Month was to park your car right…

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From AS, re my comments about the rear-naked choke hold in the May 26 issue

May 30, 2023 · 1 min read

“In all the media reports about the subway debacle I saw, there was no physical contact, that is until the ex-marine used the choke hold. “They taught that choke hold to us in the Army. There was no…

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Re the video in Monday’s P.S. – “Is this woman stupid or just crazy?

April 15, 2022 · 2 min read

“Since [the woman’s actions] seemed so, so extreme, I checked up comments and saw people mentioning that he first sideswiped her and then she hit him. It still doesn’t justify what she did, but indeed she does…

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From SC, re “Chat-GPT as Mark Ford” in the May 12 issue

May 17, 2023 · 3 min read

“I loved it. But to me, the only thing that I might call ‘disturbing’ was the hint of cynicism I’m seeing in some of your writing the last year or so. “Yes, those ‘keys to living’ are clichés and not terribly…

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From GM re what I said about the failure of “The War on Poverty” in the Feb. 12 issue

February 27, 2024 · 1 min read

“I don’t see how any progress can be made when you have a country hell-bent on importing poverty at a furious rate. The US has been doing this for decades and, most alarmingly, for the last three years. Under…

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