Mary Phillips-Sandy

At (In)decision this week:
George W. Bush Will Spend His Retirement Feasting on Panda Kabobs
Auto Bailout Blows a Gasket in the Senate
No Bonuses for Wall Street, But Sacks of Cash Still Pretty Cool
Barack Hussein Obama to be Sworn in as Barack Hussein Obama (KQS, get back to me!)
$14 Billion Auto Industry Bailout Sputters to Life, Makes [...]

Dennis, my “boss” over at Indecision 2008, is on “vacation”* this week, so Matt has been pretending to be my boss. He’s been giving me lots of helpful feedback, like “Sure, whatever” and “Fuck that!” and “I don’t know, ask someone else” and “Fuck it, let’s just rickroll everyone for the rest of the week.” [...]

If your national reputation allows you to attract and retain the best and brightest in the industry, and your clients benefit from industry best practices supported by outstanding client service, and your specialists are acknowledged industry leaders with distinct experience, your website should not be this ugly.

Today is my mom’s birthday. No matter how old she gets, this will always be my favorite picture of her.

It was taken on the Upper West Side, sometime in the 1950s, when itinerant “pony men” roamed the streets of the Upper West Side, for photo ops.
I can’t even begin to fathom how marvelous that must [...]

True confession time: I have, over the years, written a fair amount about investment banking and the culture that prevails inside the hallowed (by which I mean “grimy”) halls of high finance. This does not mean I know which stocks you should buy. It does mean that I’ve spent many hours staring at salary numbers [...]

In this day and age it’s just good sense to own yourfullname.com. Even though, I realize, my full name is long and burdened with double consonants.
At least I left the hyphen out, for your convenience.