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Now You Can Be a War Profiteer


The 2003 invasion of Iraq, termed “Operation Iraqi Freedom” by the US administration, began on March 20. Halliburton Co. (NYSE: HAL), the now infamous (though apparently not infamous enough) firm formerly run by our Vice President, DIck Cheney, closed that day at $10.06/share (split adjusted). Apparently investors, excited at the prospect of war, bid up the stock that day, because it closed nearly 10% higher than the week prior. Hooray for you, Hooray for Me, Hooray for War! Yay!

Surrogate Parenting: Too many games and not enough socialization


This kid is in desperate need of a new computer. Or counseling. Or both.

U.S. Army Pays $400 per Gallon for Gas


Four hundred dollars for a gallon of gas. Crazy, right? Not if you’re war profiteering!

Why profiling is such a bad idea


An email purporting to show why we should embrace profiling in order to combat terrorism just got my dander up. Let’s just call a spade a spade, shall we?

Somebody heard, but is anyone listening?


Wow, the professor in BUAD400 just told me he wants to present my course reflection letter to the Chancellor of the university. Cool.
Several of us in the class agonized over whether to submit papers that honestly reflected how we felt about the course. Kudos to the instructor for taking the heat and stepping up to [...]

Business Ethics at UCCS


I wrote and submitted the following paper as my final assignment in a course on Business Ethics. The assignment was to write a paper, in the form of a letter to someone who didn’t attend the class, discussing what we got out of the course. For the most part, I detest this sort of assignment [...]