Lessons Learned in the Workplace
A month ago I wrote my last front-page post about my sudden/unexpected career shift and the process of accepting it and moving forward. Since I normally average one front page post per week, the long layoff...
Daily Archive: March 21, 2013
Dignity, Empathy, and the Iraq War
So Digby’s reading these Iraq War mea culpas — and thank god for that because I tried before quickly determining I can’t stands no more: David Ignatius wrote his Iraq mea culpa today and...
Let’s police ourselves – it really works – The London Whale Edition.
I’ve started to take greater interest in JPMorgan’s London Whale trading scandal in light of the information that has been uncovered.
A Thing I Do Not Understand about Libertarians
An attempt to restore balance to the Force. Annotated for readers’ benefit.
Thursday Night Bar Fight #5: Brother, Can You Spare an Amendment?
Bad news, everyone! It turns out that due to its massive war debt at the end of its revolutionary war, the United States was unable to pay to own outright all future amendments to...
A Modest Feminist Proposal
by James Vonder Haar In a recent comment thread, NewDealer had this to say, quoting Zerlina Maxwell: “Teach young men to believe women who come forward and not to blame the victim.” This is...
The New Kids on the Block: East Asia’s New Leadership.
We’re now a quarter of the way through 2013, and I realized that I never got around to writing my power transition post I meant to do six months ago. The long and short...
Why Civil Marriage?
A commenter asks in response to Elias’ post on the problem with arguments against same sex marriage: As a person who is single and has taken care of one of my parents for 18...
