Brian Gongol
Judging job candidates by their grammar
Interesting hypothesis: If you don't know the rules for "its" vs. "it's" by age 20, your learning curve is too flat for you to be qualified for other work.
What woods you should avoid using to smoke meat
The Onion: "Horrible couple really wants wedding to reflect their personalities"
Tomorrow will be Ron Santo Day at Wrigley Field
Chicago lures 3,000 jobs at Motorola away from a neighboring suburb
The jobs will move from Libertyville to the Merchandise Mart -- a distance of about 40 miles (but no real migration out of the Chicagoland area). This begs the question: What's the point? Didn't Chicago just steal a few jobs from a neighbor without really creating anything new? This is exactly what's wrong with economic-development projects: Nothing new is really being created. We're just shuffling the deck.
On a quest to eradicate poverty around the world
A pitched battle is being fought over Britain's economy
Things have turned south for the economy, but the government is way out of fiscal balance
America's factories are filling up, and mortgage rates keep falling down
