James Holmes’ parents, Robert and Arlene, probably shouldn’t be talking about the death penalty

Robert and Arlene Holmes

You might have seen this: James Holmes’ parents, Robert and Arlene, are saying he should be spared the death penalty — and a trial — and instead just be institutionalized. First things first: if your child is one of the… Continue Reading

Here’s more evidence the middle class is dead/dying

Via here:

Your Christmas stuff is likely from Yiwu, a small town in China

Yiwu Is Where Christmas Comes From

Read this, then read this, then watch this:

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A roundup of social media on the Jessica Chambers case

Jessica Chambers Twitter

It seems like the Jessica Chambers case — girl burned alive in Mississippi, with potential gang involvement — is really becoming a big concept on social media. Herein, a brief rundown of some things that have been going on. Remember: at… Continue Reading

Marketing Trends 2015: O-Sources vs. P-Sources

Marketing Trends 2015

There’s this book called Absolute Value, co-authored by Itamar Simonson and Emanuel Rosen. They’re both professors at Stanford; there’s an article up now at the Stanford GSB website on how “the digital age rewrote consumer behavior,” which is something I think everyone inherently knows/understands,… Continue Reading

The top 10 skills for a job in 2014, per LinkedIn

Hottest Job Skills 2014

As year-end reviews go, anything LinkedIn does has the potential to be fairly interesting: after all, they have 350 million profiles with information about people’s professional backgrounds, skill sets, experiences, and connections. (And despite that, they probably haven’t made recruiting that much… Continue Reading

Serial Podcast, Episode 12: With Adnan and Jay, we believe what we want to believe

Adnan Syed Serial

Last night I got wine drunk with my wife — it was the kind of evening where I changed my mom’s ringtone on my cell phone (for incoming) to “Wrecking Ball” — and at one point, we were out on… Continue Reading

Could there be a tie between Chelsea Bruck, Julia Niswender, and Chelsea Small?

Chelsea Bruck Missing

I wrote about the Chelsea Bruck case back on October 29; she still hasn’t been found — going on close to two months now — and the biggest news in the interim seems to be three families of Michigan missing/murdered… Continue Reading