The Way-Back Machinationist 0
Anthony Dixon argues that
DeSantis has chosen education as a tool to set this country back 100 years.
His reasoning is spot on (follow the link for details), but methinks his math is off.
A more accurate figure is 164 years.
Precisely 164 years.
Florida Man 0
No selfie awareness. No selfie awareness whatsoever.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Sam speaks with Suzanne Nossel about Florida Man’s thought police.
Afterthought:
Richard Nixon’s southern strategy has come full circle and consumed the Republican Party. Florida Man’s antics are rooted in America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the ideology of racism that was fabricated to justify it.
If you can’t see that, you just aren’t looking.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
Republican Family Values 0
Those “family values” Republicans seem to have plucked Grung-e-Gene’s last nerve.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy comments at the YouTube page:
If Donald Trump could sing (or think in complete sentences) he would write a song. (A song the likes of which no one’s ever heard before, believe me.) Since Mangy Fetlocks has more intellectual capacity in his elbow than Trump has in his bloated orange head, AND since Mangy is a musical older guy with too much time on his hands, he decided to write a song for Trump to sing in prison.
Stormin’ Snowflakes 0
Badtux catches the drift.
Calamity Jane Catastrophe David
0
Steve M. points reminds David Brooks (not that he’s paying attention or ever has, for that matter) that, when you point your finger at someone else, you have four fingers pointing back at you.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another child is injured in a random act of politeness.
We are a broken society.
The New Gilded Age 0
Jim Hightower sees a similarity between then and now.
(snip)
“The Wreck of the Old 97” is a classic bluegrass song recounting a spectacular train crash in 1903, caused by the company’s demand that the engineer speed down a dangerous track to deliver cargo on time.
One hundred twenty years later we have the “Wreck of the Norfolk Southern” — a devastating crash caused by the corporate demand that it be allowed to run an ill-equipped, understaffed, largely unregulated, 1.7-mile train carrying flammable, cancer-causing toxics through communities, putting profit over people and public safety.
Twits Own Twitter 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Ronald Riggio argues forcefully that Elon Musk is something less than a role model for effective leadersip. Riggio makes three main points; follow the link for his discussion of each.
- While Elon Musk has been a successful entrepreneur, his dictatorial behavior suggests that he is not a “good” leader.
- Good leadership is about more than just success. Good leaders develop their followers, and treat them with respect and dignity.
- Successful leaders who misbehave and hurt rather than help those whom they lead should not be role models of leadership.
Aside:
As a corporate trainer for many years, I focused on teaching management, leadership, and communication skills.
When it comes to dealing with people, Musk checks all the boxes for the “don’ts.”