Memos from the 'World's Worst Boss'

Do you think your boss is tough or unfair? Try working for the world's worst boss—Mike Davis, aka Tiger Mike. Davis started as a chauffeur and ...

Anton Chekhov's Story about a Man Looking for Comfort

There is an Anton Chekhov story called "The Lament." It is a simple story about an old man who drives a horse and buggy for hire through the ...

Columnist on the Complexity of Modern Life

Wall Street Journal columnist Joe Queenan made some funny comments on the complexity and information overload of modern life:

I bought a sinus rinse the ...

A Positive Take on 'Hate Mail'

Novelist William Giraldi, a contributing editor to The New Republic, wrote an essay on the modern phenomenon of online hate mail, most often found in ...

Country Bumpkin Lawyer Surprises His Legal Team

In the 1840s a court case based in Chicago captured the attention of the entire nation. Labeled "The Reaper Case," it centered on the patenting ...

Study Shows Rudeness Can Actually Kill

We all know bad manners are toxic. But new research now shows that bad manners can kill. In this study, when doctors spoke rudely to their staff, both ...

Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' Hits the Shelves 70 Years Later

The Times of Israel reported in 2015, "For 70 years since the Nazi defeat in World War II, copyright law has been used in Germany to prohibit the ...

Booing Cardboard Cutout of Baseball Star

Robinson Cano is an all-star second baseman who left the New York Yankees at the end of the 2013 season to take a 10 year, 240 million dollar contract ...

Company Excels at Tearing Products Apart

When the latest smartphone is released workers from Teardown.com line up in the early morning hours at stores to buy these devices. Then they returne ...

You Say Granada, I Say Grenada: The Power of Words

After two years without a vacation, Edward Gamson, an American dentist, was excited to board his plane and do some site seeing in Granada, a province ...