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...office, my male co-workers regularly asked me about my sex life, told me about theirs, insinuated things when I evaded their questions. It was great that Charles was always willing to fix my computer for me but it was also vaguely condescending. Plus, who wants to work at a place where people are more interested in what you did last weekend after hours than what you're doing in the office...
Brightening home (add high-watt bulbs, new drapes) $86-$110 $768-$935 769% Update kitchen/bath $1546-$2120 $3823-$4885 138% Landscaping/trimming $432-$506 $1594-$1839 266% Fix plumbing/electrical...
...ties all other reforms together. "It's no accident that the major parties aren't addressing the income gap and are ignoring the failed war on drugs," says Harshbarger. "The constituencies that are hurt by these issues aren't donating millions of dollars to the political parties. Unless you fix campaign finance, you can't move on to the other issues." Still, it seems a curiously arbitrary trio of concerns--particularly the drug-war component, which scores scarcely a blip in any catalog of the public's disenchantments. Why single out drug laws instead of guns, for example...
...single people paid higher tax rates than they would have if they had been married. So an organized singles lobby--there really was one at the time--pressed Washington for a remedy, and thus the marriage penalty was born. Now married people are complaining. But if they get their fix, it won't be long before the singles pipe up again...
...economic calculus of conventions may necessitate fudging on a few broken windows or resorting to the architectural equivalent of placing a coffee table over a carpet stain just to fill city coffers and attract positive media spin. And that's fine - as a quick fix. But after all the conventioneers have pulled up camp and gone back to their daily lives in Iowa and Colorado, Philadelphia's leadership would be well advised to take another hard look at their town and earmark a few million of that convention money for a round of serious, uncynical renovation. Because reality will...