Evening Post & Mail

By Brian Gongol

Make money, have fun, clean up after yourself, and mind your business. Weekdays at 7pm Central, generally in 750 words or less.

Previous issues

Move along now

#190 Dec 3, 2021

Are you even listening to yourself?

#189 Dec 2, 2021

Freely associating to do some business

#188 Dec 1, 2021

#187

Nov 30, 2021

By the people, of the people – On republics, democracies, Rihanna, and giving the national mood a place to vent
#186

Nov 29, 2021

It takes more than a tax break – On the local-news subsidy contained within "Build Back Better"
#185

Nov 28, 2021

Live each day like your 39,999th – On the problem with "living each day like it's your last"
#184

Nov 25, 2021

Active gratitude – On praying for the right things at Thanksgiving
#183

Nov 24, 2021

Is the petroleum reserve strategic anymore? – On the use and abuse of strategy, tactics, and the English language
#182

Nov 23, 2021

You can't be too tired to argue – On the creeping plague of people giving up on persuasion
#181

Nov 22, 2021

What does "meta" really mean? – On the "metaverse" and ships in bottles
#180

Nov 19, 2021

Nobody loves a latrine – On World Toilet Day and the need to shift the focus away from the environment to where it really belo
#179

Nov 18, 2021

For our own good, we'll have to become less judgmental – On the hazards of holding everything a teenager said over the subsequent adult's head
#178

Nov 17, 2021

Check the radar – On the need for a few more Doppler radars, if we're spending trillions anyway
#177

Nov 16, 2021

Good luck to the human computers at the economic helm – On inflation, unemployment, and the "dual mandate" we ask of economists
#176

Nov 15, 2021

Who's looking after our brains? – On the importance of treating our brains at least as seriously as our teeth
#175

Nov 12, 2021

Are you someone's type? – On the "political typology" quiz that gives all the wrong answers
#174

Nov 11, 2021

What to do with our sages? – On the accelerating retirement wave and the very real human compulsion to find meaningful things to d
#173

Nov 10, 2021

Conglomerates aren't really dead, GE notwithstanding – On the conglomerate form of the great American corporation. Like the Black Knight, it's not dead yet.
#172

Nov 9, 2021

It's not only what you want, but how – On setting the ten steps from where you are to where you want to be -- whether you're trying to end c
#171

Nov 8, 2021

What's the target? – On the news that there are aircraft-carrier-shaped targets waiting for China's missiles to test

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