The short entries range from campy, insidery quips to trenchant cultural observations.

Collective bargaining has a crisis of unwork — that is, work which Justice Douglas once called unwanted . . . totally useless. So much unwork clutters the table that collective bargaining is no longer able to do what it should: […]

Among other fraudulences, Enron perfected the art of “mark to market” accounting, tagging mere estimates of future profits as actual on-the-books assets.

LEONATO. Indeed he looks younger than he did, by the loss of a beard. DON PEDRO. Nay, a' rubs himself with civet: can you smell him out by that? CLAUDIO. That's as much as to say the sweet youth's in love.