Year: 2005

  • Six signs that you should run — not walk — from your new job

    You ask your new boss for supplies and she hands you a No. 2 pencil and legal pad &#8212 and nothing else.You were shown to a cubicle your first day of work, given a company manual and haven’t been spoken to since.Every time you tell someone about your new job with the company they raise…

  • Fraud

    Fraud is nothing more than the skin of the truth stuffed with a lieBarry Minkow, one of the 20th Century’s greatest con artists

  • Dangerous Shoppers

    Hannah and I drove down from Maine on Saturday afternoon and met the blizzard head on at the Portsmouth Rotary.We saw several cars off the road the nearer we got to the Mass. Border.Sunday Cherrie had it all shoveled out by game time and we settled in to watch the Pats cream the Steelers.Monday, as…

  • Fortune cookie

    You will be promoted soon.Fortune Cookie from Dinner on 5 February 2005

  • Temptation

    I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.Mae West as Flowerbell Lee in My Little Chickadee.

  • To Kill an American

    You probably missed it in the rush of news last week, but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American.So an Australian dentist wrote the following to let everyone know what an American is… so they…

  • Love

    Love immediately challenges me to break the fixation I have with myself.John Powell, S.J.