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Never confuse ‘clear thought’ with crap

November 16, 2008

Last Saturday, Mark Lilla, a professor of humanities at Columbia University, wrote an article in the WSJ titled The Perils of ‘Populist Chic’, What the rise of Sarah Palin and populism means for the conservative intellectual tradition. It was well-thought out and objectively argued. In short, it explains why presidential candidates need to go bowling and drinking [...]

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Be patient with GenY; winter is coming

August 17, 2008

Ryan Healy with Brazen Careerist posted an article up on the blog a few days ago, asking GenY to tell companies what they want. A flood of comments have come in since and will probably get a few more as the “old folks” wander into the office on Monday morning and peek at what the [...]

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Personal responsibility rears its ugly head again

March 22, 2007

I was watching CSPAN (yeah, we dogs watch CSPAN!) and the rep from MN was pontificating on how backed up the St. Paul passport office was and ow her constituents could not go on their vacations because it was taking more than five weeks to process passports.
Oh, BOO-HOO! We have had two years to [...]

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