Patt MORRISON A labor problem

From: Oakland Tribune | Date: February 29, 2004 | Copyright information

IF this reads a bit awkwardly, it's because of a little experiment I've been conducting.

Overseas outsourcing. I'm having my column written by foreign workers.

I farm out my job to low-paid writers around the world, I get to keep most of my munificent wages, and I spend only about a half-hour on final inspection, compared to the dozen hours or more it takes to manufacture a column start to finish.

My nouns and pronouns are now made in Indonesia, verbs and adverbs in Mex...

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