When in rome…

Food for thought: how many of these characteristics are we seeing in modern-day society?  All of these different phenomena happened in Rome, and various scholars argue that most of these were principal contributors to the fall of Rome.  They’ll sound familiar, sometimes spookily so. Some might not sound so bad at first glance, but then, … More When in rome…

To all the customers I’ve loved before

  A few days ago I stumbled upon a “Customers suck” blog, and a few of its knock-off cousins.  These blogs serve as sanity-sustaining sounding boards for anonymous rants about asshole customers endured by overworked and underpaid people, usually from the retail and other service sectors. In the interest of pure class-time-wasting entertainment, I continued … More To all the customers I’ve loved before