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Day: September 11, 2013

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Somniloquy

Mike Schilling September 11, 2013
All good things must come to an end. Morally ambiguous ones too.
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Is the Stacked Ranking of Employees Actually Bad? IFRL-TLC-Patterns-GAPD-tretyakov.blessed-be-the-host-of-the-king-of-heaven-46

Is the Stacked Ranking of Employees Actually Bad?

Vikram Bath September 11, 2013
Vikram examines the usefulness of grading employees on a rigid curve as practiced by General Electric and...
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Fire Your Congressperson

Patrick September 11, 2013
It’s 9 days to the screening exam, so I can’t write about this story yet (also here). ...
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Do the Unborn Dream of Jerry Springer? : How the creepiest, most sensational story of 2013 could be a game-changer for Pro-Life advocates

Tod Kelly September 11, 2013
A sensational, bizarre, made-for-tabloids crime forces Tod Kelly to reconsider his own position on abortion - and...
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  • Philip H in reply to Dark Matter on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreClearly more than we are willing to pay. Hence Michael’s observations.
  • Philip H in reply to Jaybird on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreIt might interest you to know that I am fairly certain I’m in Dark’s class - both economically and i…
  • Dark Matter in reply to Michael Cain on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not Anymorewe refuse to fund/staff public schools to the level that deals with all the students’ needs. How muc…
  • Dark Matter in reply to Philip H on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreClass warfare? Valuing education and having the resources to move selects for a certain class, but "…
  • Slade the Leveller on Open Mic for the Week of 6/23/25We are governed by morons. https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/politics/doge-fired-workers-rehired
  • Jaybird in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 6/23/25Cuomo has just called Mamdani and conceded the primary. Which means, I think, that it's a three-way…
  • Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 6/23/25If Mamdani wins NYC, AOC needs to start her Presidential run for 2028 starting, oh, Thursday.
  • Jaybird in reply to Philip H on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreI'm assuming the other members in his class are equally selfish when it comes to their children. Tho…
  • Philip H in reply to Jaybird on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreHe’s the one talking about all the things his caste will Or won’t do. Last I checked that’s class wa…

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  • Philip H in reply to Slade the Leveller on From the NY Times: 400K Manufacturing Jobs Unfilled, Kinda
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  • Jaybird in reply to DensityDuck on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not Anymore
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