Well, I happened to be married to someone who had extensive dealings with said division, who told me that while yes, it is true, many business segments of this company are now producing in Mexico, in reality, the local division’s product line simply failed. They entirely botched the process of converting one of their major mature product lines to digital.

That made me wonder how often that happens — company with offshore operations closes a plant, and media and everybody attributes closing to offshore operations, rather than to other business factors. Like, say, the invention of the iron plow.

On occasion I start thinking about posting on intelligent design or evolution, then I wander over to New Covenant. Needless to say that from now on when I attempt to string a few lucid thoughts together on those subjects I’ll…