Monthly Archives: September 2015

Statistics? We don’t need no stinking statistics! (My love affair with baseball)

Posted on September 27, 2015 by juanzqui7

YESTERDAY, I WATCHED the Astros from what is called the “Inspirity Club” of Minute Maid Park. Inspirity is a local bank, I think. Why any business would choose such an insipidly awful name is beyond me, but I do know there … Continue reading →

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Our morally indefensible minimum wage

Posted on September 12, 2015 by juanzqui7

[I came across this column I wrote for The Houston Post in February 1995. I post it here not because I think it’s that great, but rather because I was struck how little has changed over the last 20 years … Continue reading →

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Letter from Barbados

Posted on September 6, 2015 by juanzqui7

[Note: for an explanation on what I was doing in Barbados, please see the previous post.] February 20, 1984 “WE’RE ALL thinking about you,” she told me. [Houston Post Publisher Doug] Creighton’s secretary, that is. Should I believe her? Of … Continue reading →

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My life as a Bajan: Stranded in Barbados

Posted on September 5, 2015 by juanzqui7

LATE IN 1983, a few months after the Toronto Sun bought the Houston Post, the new owners decided to take advantage of a treaty that would allow them to funnel their U.S. profits through Barbados and back to Canada, to … Continue reading →

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