
Last Friday I sat in a local restaurant, surrounded by TGIF revelers. My town is home to a small college and a large hospital. This particular Ivy League college is very well endowed, and is a large and beneficent employer; and over 9,000 people work at the hospital. Between them (to say nothing of the infrastructure of a typical middle-class community –- the schools, the retailers, town workers) there’s never a shortage of folks looking to leave work a few minutes early on Friday to stake...

