White-On-White Violence Claims Life Of Accounts Receivable Supervisor The Onion - America's Finest News Source
A sad day for middle management thugs everywhere. It' hard out there.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
National Journalists Take A Lunch Break
Obama, Biden raise some Hell Burgers - White House- msnbc.com:
Another in a series of in-depth mainstream media investigative reports. President Obama was driven to Virginia today, with Vice-President Joe Biden to get lunch.
Anyone who says that the national press are poodles for Obama just have to read the news to discover differently. This is important stuff, people. This is what they talked about in journalism school. This is the fourth estate.
Another in a series of in-depth mainstream media investigative reports. President Obama was driven to Virginia today, with Vice-President Joe Biden to get lunch.
Anyone who says that the national press are poodles for Obama just have to read the news to discover differently. This is important stuff, people. This is what they talked about in journalism school. This is the fourth estate.
Democrats wallow in a 'culture of corruption'
Democrats wallow in a 'culture of corruption' - Los Angeles Times
The headline speaks for itself. Look, it took the National Enquirer to do actual journalistic investigation to expose John Edwards' misdeeds even as he ran for the presidency. What objective evidence is there that the national media is willing to look into political corruption unless said politician's name precedes an (R)?
The money quote is the first sentence;
No way, really? I really can't bear to write any more.
The headline speaks for itself. Look, it took the National Enquirer to do actual journalistic investigation to expose John Edwards' misdeeds even as he ran for the presidency. What objective evidence is there that the national media is willing to look into political corruption unless said politician's name precedes an (R)?
The money quote is the first sentence;
Some days you have to ask yourself, my God, what if these people were Republicans?
No way, really? I really can't bear to write any more.
Sunday, May 03, 2009
Hard-Hitting Journalism Takes A Walk, Softball Journalism Goes To Work
Obamas take a walk, holding hands in the evening
With the wallowing economy, two wars, enormous corporate bankruptcies, pandemic threats,brewing eternal house and senate corruption scandals, its great to know that our mainstream media is on top of things. Asking the hard questions, holding feet to fires, and staying detached from the powerful elite they counterbalance. Any word on what shoes Michelle was wearing?
As Glenn Reynolds would say, "The country is in the best of hands."
With the wallowing economy, two wars, enormous corporate bankruptcies, pandemic threats,
As Glenn Reynolds would say, "The country is in the best of hands."
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Friday, May 01, 2009
Is Favre Retired, And Are you Tired Of Hearing This?
Brad Childress: Vikings will likely discuss Favre - NFL - SI.com
I have to admit that while professional sports are perhaps different than other jobs, they are still jobs. If some fool wanted to pay high-market rates for my services ($6-10 million plus) then why on earth wouldn't I take it? Who ever heard anyone ask if a nurse was worried about spoiling their legacy if they accepted a promotion, or questioned the wisdom of a trucker whose old company laid him off accepting a job with another trucking outfit? If Brett Favre wants to play football and the Vikings (or another team) wants him, then by all means, Brett: tear it up.
If Favre does go to the Vikings, and they beat Green Bay then Ted Thompson (the GBPs general manager) will look like an enormous douchebag for running him out of town. If he plays poorly then Thompson will be vindicated. However, anyone who questions the wisdom of a 39 year-old man accepting a highly-paid job offer for work which he is well-qualified, well that's just nuts. If my employer puts me out to pasture then why the hell wouldn't I take great offer from someone else if I still wanted to work?
I've been playing rugby for over 20 years now and I know I'm not the player I was ten years ago. I'm willing to be a backup and occasional starter now because as much as I love playing rugby I like the people I play with just as much. A generic rugby team is a pretty good bunch of guys and so is, I'd guess a generic professional football team.
So Brett, go ahead and play for whomever you like. Just don't expect Green Bay to cut you any slack.
I have to admit that while professional sports are perhaps different than other jobs, they are still jobs. If some fool wanted to pay high-market rates for my services ($6-10 million plus) then why on earth wouldn't I take it? Who ever heard anyone ask if a nurse was worried about spoiling their legacy if they accepted a promotion, or questioned the wisdom of a trucker whose old company laid him off accepting a job with another trucking outfit? If Brett Favre wants to play football and the Vikings (or another team) wants him, then by all means, Brett: tear it up.
If Favre does go to the Vikings, and they beat Green Bay then Ted Thompson (the GBPs general manager) will look like an enormous douchebag for running him out of town. If he plays poorly then Thompson will be vindicated. However, anyone who questions the wisdom of a 39 year-old man accepting a highly-paid job offer for work which he is well-qualified, well that's just nuts. If my employer puts me out to pasture then why the hell wouldn't I take great offer from someone else if I still wanted to work?
I've been playing rugby for over 20 years now and I know I'm not the player I was ten years ago. I'm willing to be a backup and occasional starter now because as much as I love playing rugby I like the people I play with just as much. A generic rugby team is a pretty good bunch of guys and so is, I'd guess a generic professional football team.
So Brett, go ahead and play for whomever you like. Just don't expect Green Bay to cut you any slack.
What is Genius?
Op-Ed Columnist - Genius - The Modern View - NYTimes.com
Genius is not about being, rather becoming. That at least is what some researchers believe. The idea is that a certain flair or talent is only enough to ante into the game whose payoff is genius. To achieve the prize requires countless hours of metaphorically backbreaking labor with guidance along the way to stay focused and on track. The old perspiration/inspiration ratio I suppose.
The point is, keep working at what you love, learn as much as you can about it, and find a expert to watch over and guide you. Once one masters an art/craft/skill then and only then can the present boundaries of the possible be stretched and expanded.
So, get to work.
Genius is not about being, rather becoming. That at least is what some researchers believe. The idea is that a certain flair or talent is only enough to ante into the game whose payoff is genius. To achieve the prize requires countless hours of metaphorically backbreaking labor with guidance along the way to stay focused and on track. The old perspiration/inspiration ratio I suppose.
The point is, keep working at what you love, learn as much as you can about it, and find a expert to watch over and guide you. Once one masters an art/craft/skill then and only then can the present boundaries of the possible be stretched and expanded.
So, get to work.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Souter to Retire
Supreme Court Justice Souter To Retire : NPR
Souter is going to retire, Ginsburg's health is tenuous, and Stevens is 89 years old. I'm not sure who is going to be nominated for the seat opening up and those which might soon be vacant, but it sure helps that Obama now has 60 democrats in the senate and control of the house. Hopefully when the confirmation process starts the republicans won't make themselves look like the fools that the democrats did with the last go-around.
Souter is going to retire, Ginsburg's health is tenuous, and Stevens is 89 years old. I'm not sure who is going to be nominated for the seat opening up and those which might soon be vacant, but it sure helps that Obama now has 60 democrats in the senate and control of the house. Hopefully when the confirmation process starts the republicans won't make themselves look like the fools that the democrats did with the last go-around.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Visit to a Wind Farm
On a recent day trip to Manitowoc, Wisconsin I decided to take a closer look at something I had noticed before. Near Fond du Lac, Wisconsin I had seen a wind farm from afar and I had been wanting a closer look. I just drove my car down an access road and parked directly under the spinning blades, mostly to irritate my long-suffering wife who had to look up at the spinning blades of kinetic death through the moon roof. The Blue Sky Green Field Wind Energy Center is an 88-tower complex rated at about 145 MW in generation capacity and covers a very large area.
It was a somewhat windy day and the blades were energetically spinning away, silent as could be. Truthfully I liked their looks; gleaming white towers topped by impressively-large rotors and a generator each. While others, Ted Kennedy et al, don't care for wind farms messing up their yachting and concurrent scenery I don't think I'd mind living near a wind farm. At almost 400 feet from the ground to the tip of the highest blade the turbines are definitely a noticeable element of the man made terrain yet oddly not so obnoxious. Perhaps I just have an unusual aesthetic.
My daughter had a wonderful time running around the base of the tower, pulling on the (locked) door hoping to climb up, and posing for pictures looking for all the world like someone who had the world's largest beanie cap.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Never Waste A Crisis
Or so says Rahm Emanuel. "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste" is the actual quote. I'm glad that the politics of fear have been replaced by those of hope. I wonder what other kind of Hopey-Changey crap is about to be shoved down my throat now.
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