

The loss is global. The advertising agencies – and clients – that I work for are losing that “inside” craftsman that is crucial to getting the project completed and meet the problems presented – marketing’s need to communicate their message, creative’s need for effective and practical design, production’s need for consistent quality and cost. These are talents nurtured over many years and are formed in a crucible made of unforgiving machinery and demanding humans."
"Before the sports pub, before the theme pub, before the gastro pub, there was, well, just the pub.
It was a place one went for a quiet pint, with friends or strangers, richor poor. It was a place of drink, certainly, but also one of discussion and discourse, sometimes dispute. Today such places have mostlydisappeared."
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"Licensing hours in those days (pubs opened late morning, shut duringthe afternoon and opened again in the evening until 11 p.m.) meant youmight pop in midday for a glass of lunch, but the serious business wasan evening affair. That said, when I was at school I learned as muchfrom my political history teacher when he held court over lunch at thelocal as I did in his classroom. It was a different time."
Read the rest of "A Eulogy For The Pub" at Forbes.


- "The cost of health care rises two to three times as fast as inflation."
That's like comparing the price of hamburger 30 years ago with the price of filet mignon today and calling the difference inflation. Or the price of a 19-inch, black-and-white TV 30 years ago with the price of a 50-inch HDTV today. The improvements in medical care are even more dramatic, leading to longer life, less pain, fewer exploratory surgeries and miracle drugs. Of course the research, the equipment and the training that produce these improvements don't come cheap."
More:- "A universal plan will reduce the cost of health care."
Think a moment. Suppose you are in an apple market with 100 buyers and 100 sellers every day and apples sell for $1 a pound. Suddenly one day 120 buyers show up. Will the price of the apples go up or down?"

Madam Speaker, the cap and trade bill proposes what amounts to endlessly increasing taxes on any enterprises that produce carbon dioxide or other so-called greenhouse gas emissions. We need to understand what that means.
It has profound implications for agriculture, construction, cargo and passenger transportation, energy production, baking and brewing — all of which produce enormous quantities of this innocuous and ubiquitous compound. In fact, every human being produces 2.2 pounds of carbon dioxide every day — just by breathing."
Meanwhile, in California, IOUs will be issued.