Let us assume they are serious, and this “holacracy” is their real intent as opposed to the kind of window dressing that small companies use to mask their transition to big companies. It’s still hogwash. Labor is conditional upon employment: one works because one is paid. People whose work is unsatisfactory are thus a… Read More Zappos is Going to Have No Bosses, Say the Bosses
I am not among the woeful who spend their day reading Slate, so I must admit I have never truly savored Yglesias’ thumbless-monkey prose. But a despicable troll in the sub-cockle of my heart delights in literary takedowns, and has ever since he first read the beating Mark Twain administered on James Fenimore Cooper. So read CJ… Read More Let us Now Abuse Matt Yglesias
You have been warned. If I was a cynical man, I’d suspect that whatever intern at NSTB “confirmed” this decided that it was too funny NOT to go on the air. In any case, if you’re like me, you will laugh, and then despise yourself for laughing. What makes it extra funny is the serious… Read More Everyone who clicks on this video is going to Hell
I’m old enough to remember when being a geek was a bad thing. I remember the days when kids who were into sci-fi, fantasy, and other forms of alternative literature hid that fact from others if they had any hope of fitting in. Hell, I remember when knowing how to work a computer was a… Read More Geek Heresy: A Consideration of Popular Fictional Universes That Bore the Living Hell out of me – Episode 1: Dr. Who Cares?
Right now there’s apparently a White House Petition to get CNN jawflapper Piers Morgan deported to the that happy realm whence he came. Something to do with his flubbering commentary on Newton and the 2nd Amendment. I haven’t read it, and I certainly haven’t signed it. Because punishing idiotic speech is not what we do… Read More Piers Morgan, Freedom Fries, and Other Jokes That Progs Don’t Get
Not one of the best starts to the week. In fact, this is one of those mornings when you feel like telling all Creation in its wonder and splendor to go screw itself with a piece of lawn furniture. Overslept, rushed, unprepared. Making it to work on time was the only triumph. Fortunately Friday was… Read More Ride, Boldly Ride, to the End of the Rainbow
Via The Anchoress, the Parodists of Record wrap a real story in a fake story, causing many to question their true commitment to progressivism: The New York Times newsroom is reportedly still undecided on whether or not to print a recent letter received from Obama, in which the president threatens to kill another helpless citizen every… Read More The Onion Reveals its Raaaaacism
You know it’s the silly season when campaign insiders and journalists (there’s a difference. I just know there is) start whispering about positive jobs reports. Even hardened old cynics like myself took pause. Why, maybe there’s a chance after all. Maybe the economy has finally found its headwind. And true to form, the numbers weren’t… Read More Taking Hope Behind the Barn and Killing it With an Axe.
Ask Sexy Stalin!, says the Byronic Man, and he is quite right. MJ Monaghan writes, Is it true you have an “I ♥ Stalin” tattoo? Dear MJ, It was supposed to say “I ♥ Sailin’.” The tattooist cleans toilets in the uranium mines now. Do read the whole thing.
It seems like the BBC is always offering New and Interesting studies that fail to be either. I don’t know if science in the UK is so devoted to AGW that there are no resources for anything else, or if the BBC can no longer tell what’s news and what isn’t. Of course, I have… Read More My Brain is Sluggish; it Must be Tuesday.
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