The Bottification of Airbnb

The Bottification of Airbnb

The “Bottification” of Airbnb Under the brutal heat dome that hovered over the eastern seaboard in mid-June of 2024, my family and I were in Washington D.C. to do the typical tourist things: the Air and Space museum, Arlington Cemetery, the Holocaust Museum, the...
A Sad and Sickening Sight in the Big Apple

A Sad and Sickening Sight in the Big Apple

by Don Mayer May 21 2024 Some people in this great country of ours are truly sickened by the prosecution (or prosecutions) of Donald J. Trump; to them, he is being “persecuted,” not prosecuted under an objective application of the rule of law. This view is more...
Israel, Gaza, Humanitarian Relief, and the Laws of War

Israel, Gaza, Humanitarian Relief, and the Laws of War

by Don Mayer Many college-aged people are deeply (and rightly) concerned about violence and militarism, here in the U.S. and abroad.  Ukraine, Sudan, Russia, Israel and Gaza all come to mind in March of 2024. What does any of this have to do with business? The...
Airtime for the Autocrat: Tucker Carlson Sucks Up to Putin

Airtime for the Autocrat: Tucker Carlson Sucks Up to Putin

We have reached a very odd place in our national politics: not long ago, Republicans would consistently  out-gun Democrats on being “tough on communists,” especially Russia –– who can forget President Reagan saying, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”  The...

Zuck’s Bafflegab Up on the Hill

Headlines on January 31st claimed that Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, had apologized at a U.S. Senate hearing to parents whose children had died as a result of suicide from cyberbullying, asphyxiation from participating in the “blackout challenge,” body-image...