Do You Know Where That [Beef/Chicken/Fish/Dairy/Water] Came From? Once upon a time, it was journalists who were referred to as being “well-sourced” (i.e., had good connections, up to and including the most famous one of all, Watergate’s “Deep Throat”). Now, food critics use that term to describe restaurants. As in: “The perfectly medium-rare burger at Red Cow...Read More
Watch Out for the Refund Line It certainly looks like this Golden Valley strip mall is offering drive-thru income tax prep. In fact, the drive-thru lane is for customers of the adjacent dry cleaners. I still like the idea, though: figuring out their annual tax liability is supposed to cost Americans hundreds of billions a...Read More
My Stock Market Advice Three years ago, I told anyone who asked that I thought it was too late to sell, but too early to buy. Today? My take is that it’s too late to buy, but too early to sell. Based on my abysmal market timing, that no doubt means that now is positively...Read More
From Star Growth Company to World’s Biggest Cash Cow Before tackling what turns out to be the not-so-novel question, “Is Apple the New Microsoft?,” I thought I’d check Google to find out how many other people had the same thought. Answer: a lot. Even more interesting, though, was when the query (observation?) first started popping...Read More
Poor — and Well-Timed — Sales Either someone at the local Whole Foods has a sick sense of humor (it’s in the 30’s and snowing — again — in the Twin Cities at the moment). Or more likely, someone in corporate — literally 1,000 miles away in Austin, Texas — decided to put suntan lotion...Read More
People Magazine: ‘World’s Most Beautiful Woman’ I never really belonged to either the “I Love Gwyneth Paltrow” camp or the “I Hate Gwyneth Paltrow” camp (yes, they really exist, complete with multiple Web sites). Instead, I’d always placed myself in the “I Don’t Especially Think (or Care) About Gwyneth Paltrow” camp. However, her recent selection by People...Read More
