Category Archives: business

An Open Letter to Lauren Faust

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Dear Ms. Faust: My name is Sean Shannon. I’m an English teacher and aspiring author from Toledo, Ohio. More importantly, I’m a longtime fan of your work; I still carry around the same Powerpuff Girls purse I bought more than a decade ago during the height of the show’s popularity. and last year I finally found the time to watch My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and quickly became hooked. Few television shows have had as profound an effect on my life, and I have made…

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Insured Insanity

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Progressive insurance on defense after court case (AP) When Matt Fisher’s initial Tumblr post about this whole story came out and several of my friends were tweeting about it, it really upset me. My reaction was complicated by the fact that not only am I a customer of Progressive Insurance, and one of my friends work for the company, but I’ve written repeatedly about my girlcrush on Flo. (She’s basically a geeky Bettie Page, so it’s hard not to crush on her.) Even now that this…

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It makes you drink

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The presidential election cycle slowed down enough this past month or so to allow news organizations to trumpet the fact that Belgian beverage maker InBev is purchasing Anheuser-Busch, the makers of that most American of beers, Budweiser. A hue and cry came from trailer parks all over this country, not only because another American company was being snapped up by a foreign conglomerate, but because most people know next to nothing about Belgium. Seriously, could you find Belgium on a map of Europe? Did you…

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Murphy’s Law

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(Happy 42nd wedding anniversary to my parents today.) When my most recent order came in from Amazon, included in all the special offers that Amazon packs into everything was a deal on business cards. I’ve needed new business cards here for a while (I don’t get any from MCCC because I’m only an adjunct there), but I’d been kind of hesitant to go out and get new card stock from OfficeMax to use with my printer for some reason. In order to get the special…

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