Justice and Mercy: The Lockerbie Bomber
The news out of Scotland is that their officials are sick of the United States' criticism regarding the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who, feeling "low" after his diagnosis with prostate cancer, and missing his loved ones, was released to Libya on the medical testimony of a prison doctor stating that he had but weeks to live. He was given a hero's welcome there, for the achievement of having caused the deaths of 270 people, and is still quite alive. The release caused a certain uproar, and the Obama administration claimed it had been out of the loop, first, later changing that to having been opposed to his release, with documents finally demonstrating that in fact the President only urged that if he were released he would prefer the mass murderer remain in Scotland, rather than go to Libya. Given Obama's audacity of mendacity, it's understandable that Scottish officials should reject a calling onto the carpet in Washington.
Still, it's distressing to read that Cardinal Keith O'Brien is lambasting Americans for wanting to understand how this travesty of justice came to be:
Cardinal O'Brien said: ''In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion'.
''On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the US, if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance'.''
He added: ''Scotland's legal system allowed the Scottish justice secretary to release Megrahi on compassionate grounds, following due process and based on clear medical advice.''
The religious leader urged US Senators wanting to question Scottish and British government ministers to instead ''direct their gaze inwards''.
Highlighting the 1,226 people executed in the US since 1976, the cardinal added: ''Perhaps the consciences of some Americans, especially members of the US Senate, should be stirred by the ways in which 'justice' is administered in so many of their own states.''
I'm personally opposed to the death penalty, but that is not what was at issue here, and if American "progressives" can denounce the Church's teachings regarding abortion, for example, as an unwarranted intrusion into politics (for politics encompasses all of the human condition in their minds), you might expect that they would also in good conscience rebuff such a statement from a foreign prelate. You would wait in vain, though. And in such cases as this, it's reasonable to expect that the concept of justice might include those whose lives were deeply wounded by this massacre of innocents whose only offense was that they boarded a plane in a country that their executioner did not like.
There can be no mercy without justice. Many times, I have pointed out that the reconciliation of Divine Mercy with Divine Justice is the fundamental theme of Dante's Divina Commedia. He begins his great Christian epic "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita," in medias res of our life's journey, at the age of 35, half of the threescore and ten allotted to us in the Bible. And it is properly the theme of middle age, because halfway through our life's journey we ought to have become cognizant of the fact that we, both as people and societies, do not have infinite resources to shower on the worthy and the unworthy alike. The poem is thus a masterpiece of discrimination, in the pre-PC understanding of the term, and that's why Dante's inventive contrapassi speak to us as they do. This form of mercy for the bomber is injustice for the aggrieved, injustice for the dead, however much it may make the Cardinal feel morally superior. They, towards whom our solicitude must most reasonably, most rationally, be turned, were in no way consulted or considered in these absurd proceedings.
The Cardinal has therefore derived mercy for this piece of barbaric inhumanity at the expense of justice for the bereaved. In the same spirit of arrogant stupidity, Lindsey Graham tells us that he voted for Justice Kagan pursuant to Jesus' Golden Rule. As a political representative of "the people," that is, he has allowed this radical to be seated in the Supreme Court for the duration of her lifetime, because it makes him feel good. It is akin to saying, I gave your belongings to Goodwill while you were on vacation, because it was a Christian thing to do.
Meanwhile, in the UK, Jon Venables, one of the two child killers of a toddler, having been caught with child pornography while out on probation, has been sent back to jail. To provide him with yet another assumed identity will cost the British taxpayer 250,000 pounds or so. If the British government had infinite resources, it might be merciful to expend such a sum on protecting the identity of this murderous pervert, but the British government does not. There's someone in the UK who, perhaps, is not receiving expensive cancer treatments because of the demented priorities of the government's commitment to mercy.
The same may be said of Shirley Sherrod and her husband, who both got Pigford settlements of $150k for pain and suffering, in addition to the $13 million doled out to their farming collective. Their pain and suffering was reckoned at about 5 times the going rate, apparently because their black authenticity was in the vicinity of 5 times greater than other suitors'. And as we now know, $1.25 billion was paid out to 86,000 "black farmers"---more than twice the number thought to have been in the United States at the time.
Imagine what that might have done for small enterpreneurs. Ah, well. It is easy to be merciful and generous with other people's money, even if it sanctions fraud. Right, Cardinal Keith?
Separating the worthy from the unworthy is hard work, and it's discriminatory. Fortunately, we have well-intentioned experts who are willing to do it for us.
Pension envy? You wish.
Sorry for the brief hiatus on public pension posts -- it's not that there's no pension action, just that I've been busy.
So let me go back some weeks to an editorial out of St. Louis, proclaiming the current round of public pension kerfuffles is just down to that green-eyed monster envy. The private sector no longer has its defined-benefit pensions and thus want to grab that prize away from the public employees.
In his 2003 book, "Envy," scholar and critic Joseph Epstein relates a joke of the sort that Russians tell on themselves that perfectly captures the meaning of zavist:
"An Englishwoman, a Frenchman, and a Russian are each given a single wish by one of those genies whose almost relentless habit it is to pop out of bottles. The Englishwoman says that a friend of hers has a charming cottage in the Cotswolds, and that she would like a similar cottage, with the addition of two extra bedrooms and a second bath and a brook running in front of it. The Frenchman says that his best friend has a beautiful blonde mistress, and he would like such a mistress himself, but a redhead instead of a blonde, and with longer legs and a bit more in the way of culture and chic. The Russian, when asked what he would like, tells of a neighbor who has a cow that gives a vast quantity of the richest milk, which yields the heaviest cream and the purest butter. 'I vant dat cow,' the Russian tells the genie, 'dead.'"
Lately, whenever we read of another attempt to "reform" pensions, we think of the Russian's cow. Two out of every three private-sector workers in America no longer are covered by traditional pension plans. Such "reform" has contributed to a crisis in retirement security.
That's a sweet idea, if the neighbor didn't get that cow by taking it away from us.
Remember those promises made to the public employees? Whose money is being used to pay for those promises?
Ours. The taxpayers.
We're not envious. We just are tired of having our money taken away, and we don't think we're getting value for that money.
I noted back in April that even though the public union employees could keep taking those golden eggs from the geese, the demography is not to the advantage of continued farming in this manner. The eggs aren't going to be increasing at a rate at which these public servants, who see the public as serving them, will like.
One often hears "Oh, but the average pension amount is $20K! And they don't get Social Security!" (whatever the average may be, and some may or may not receive Social Security payments). But how many years are they receiving? And do they get automatic increases in amount each year? A single year's cost doesn't mean much when you've got a cost that is getting paid out for more than thirty years -- indeed, for more years than the worker served the public.
So smirk at the "pension envy" with its close parallel of "penis envy", but the fact is that these souped-up pensions come out of our pockets. All sorts of crazy investment schemes tried in the name of hiding just how expensive these pension promises were.
The assumption always was that if all else failed, the taxpayers could be soaked to make up the difference.
I think we're about to find out the truth of that statement.
MORE ON THE PENSIONS "CLASS WAR": A short piece in the NY Times with the punchline:
“We have to do what unions call givebacks,” said Mr. Lamm, the former Colorado governor. “That’s the only way to sanity. Any other alternative, therein lies dragons.”
THE OTHER SIDE: John Cole and his Balloon Juice:
And let there be no doubt that there will be a class war over this. Matt Welch and the glibertarian wingnut welfare recipients at Reason have been beating this drum for a while now.
Well, John, there are a couple ways this goes down: taxpayers outnumber the public employees and down go the public benefits; taxpayers are outnumbered by public employees... and there's not enough money to pay for the benefits. Huzzah! It all works out in the end.
OK – WTF – Worth Another Try – Why I Think “Gay Marriage” is Silly
In advance, I denounce myself. My gay friends know the type of person I am, so I am not worried about them being offended. Teh Gay readership here at POWIP is likely rather low, so I don't have to worry about POWIP ratings taking a shit... And, well, readership is decent but not stellar. And most of our readers seem to like to watch rather than comment. This may mean our "readers" are search bots... or more likely SPAM Bots. For the readers that actually give a rip about my position visa vis Gay "Marriage Rights" I offer it. And anyone who has actually waded through my bipolar tripe will likely not find anything I say very shocking. I denounce myself a second time just because it feels good.
FULL DISCLOSURE - I, Enoch_Root, am a "Gay Marriage" Denier.
Now, at the face of it one might attribute this to my incredibly radical politics. But this is not so. I am a Constitutionalist. I am someone who might be a Libertarian but for their stance on infanticide. But mostly I am a person who has checked out of the parties altogether.
With regard to Civil Unions, I have no problem. I mean, from a strictly Constitutional standpoint, I can't really even begin to care. It matters very little to me whether or not two people want to file to be each others' primary go-to-person before the Law. I couldn't really seriously begin to care.
What I do care a great deal about is language. In the case of Language, I care a great deal. Here is why: in order for people to communicate their thoughts effectively (with efficiency and clarity), words must mean what they mean. What this means is that it is disingenuous to call "Civil Unions" between two people of the same gender "Marriage". Quite rightly, I am opposed to doing so, as it does no one any good to pretend an "apple" is an "orange." I almost went on to say something about fruit... but caught myself in time to prevent it. Long and short of this paragraph is that the proper conveyance of ideas depends on being able to agree on what an orange is as compared to an apple when we hear those respective words. I think it is fair to say that there is enough misunderstanding in the world to result in an endless supply of wars. That is, there is really no good reason I can think of to purposefully con-fuse people's minds. Are there other reasons?
I digress - which is kind of what I do (though I try to pass it off as shtick). This essay is not so much about communicating to you, dear reader, about the importance of words and specificity of communication. No. The title of this here essay sez I intend to speak about why it is silly to call "Civil Union" between two people of the same gender "Marriage."
If we are to believe the arguments of proponents of Gay Civil Unions - we would first be treated to arguments regarding "equality under the Law." I have spoken to my lack of concern as to whether two men or two women in a Homosexual Civil Union wish to be as equal to a man and a woman in Marriage before the Law. Why it is silly is that if we assume there is no bad intention among people given to this particular form of life-partnership, then we must take them at their word - and their word is that they, too, can/do feel for one another as a man and woman in love feel. This is to say, they can be/are as committed to one another s a woman and a man can be/are. I do not disagree that this is certainly the case. If we agree Gay peeps are Humans too, then it is most like to be the case that teh Gays experience the same depth and breadth of emotion as teh Breeders do.
But it is silly still. Marriage - that is the Holy Matrimony between a man and a woman - far pre-dated the adoption of Civil Law in the Western World of the term "Marriage." And as evidence that "Marriage" was a given in this form - that is a man and woman in Holy Matrimony - Civil Law was infused with this precise understanding - at the exclusion of any other form of co-lifepartnership. But "Marriage" (as in Holy Matrimony) is quite distinct from "marriage" with a lower-case "m" - reserved for purposes of censuses, bureaucratic administration, taxation, etc. It may not have been so clearly the case when Church and State were, frankly one in the same - nor later when Church and State began to tease apart like good string cheese. Even post Franch-Revulusion, Marriage was THE Institution officiated by the Church (Papist and Schismatic alike). When I say "officiated," this is precisely what I mean, by the way. And I mean it as meaning being distinct from anything beyond officiating.
Like it or not, Marriage IS Holy Matrimony. "marriage" is not.
A man or woman who is civilly divorced from his/her SPOUSE without an annulment is STILL MARRIED.
A man or woman who secures an annulment from his/her former-spouse without dissolving the Civil Union ("marriage") is still married in the eyes of the Law.
What is silly about these souls who no doubt love each other and are committed to each other is that NO MAN - NO CIVIL AUTHORITY - can do anything to ever make "Civil Union" - whether between two men, two women, or a hetero couple - out to be "Marriage." No matter how often we call an orange "apple" - an orange is still and ever will be distinct from an apple.
I wish, for the sake of the loving homosexual couples in the world (of which I have observed a few), this were not the case. But it is the case. And there is nothing the state, popular opinion, or even man-made-ologies can do to change the distinction.
There are still Alchemists today. Maybe. But looking back is seems, well, silly. Doesn't it? That Newton, that mega-brainiac, thought an apple he could coax from an orange.
POWIP Shocka! Mos’ Romanic Presidn’t Evah Kissiz w Eyez Openz
Eyes Open?
A post-racial, post-hetero president celebrates the ruling against PropH8 w/an unnamed jackass.
There should be a law... eyes open? Really?
MSSEs? The New MSM?
Interesting poll results...
Hmmmm. Anecdotal. But the respondents are Search Engine Marketers by Profession.
Find actual poll here on linkedin.com.
The technology has changed radically. The radicals? Not so much.
I dub thee the Main Stream Search Engines (MSSEs).
Attn WebberNauts: Google is NOT your friend.
Six of Ten Americans Doubt Story of Trig’s Birth
Oh, did I say Trig? I meant Obama.
A new poll by CNN, whose editorial commentary largely supports President Obama and his policies, delivered some bad news on his apparent birthday today: 6 of 10 people are uncertain the president was even born in the United States.
The poll was taken July 16-21 of 1,018 adults, including 335 Democrats and 285 Republicans. It has a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
The question was: "Do you think Barack Obama was definitely born in the United States, probably born in the United States, probably born in another country, or definitely born in another country?"
Definitely in the United States got the vote from 42 percent of the respondents and probably in the United States another 29 percent.
Meanwhile, turns out that Kagan's been deeply involved in preventing challenges to Obama's status. And as former Dean of Harvard Law, as my Twitter friend @jiangxidad points out, she's probably played a role in keeping those records under lock and key. It's a small, small world.
Real Housewives of DC: A primer
Some broads that live in DC
I've been waiting all summer for this. All my adult life really. Every minute of every hour of every day has been but mind numbing busywork, passing the time leading up to this moment. THE moment. The premiere of the "Real Housewives of DC" on Bravo. Mark Burnett was born to make reality shows that would make reality shows really popular so that this show would be made... for me, for you, for America.�
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So much divides us. and that is so very sad. It's not what the Founding Fathers intended. Just last week as I was paying for a funnelcake (or as I call them, freedomcakes) I was moved to see a single tear fall from George Washington's eye on the dollar bill I was using. OK, maybe it was powdered sugar. Or maybe God used powdered sugar to get my attention. Who knows? I'm thinking with my heart again. What I do know is that there is no hope for this nation if we can't come together on common ground. And why can't mocking these silly women and their silly lives be that common ground? C'mon, let's meet the ladies:
Catherine Ashley Ommanney: Foreigner, soon to be ex-wife of a Newsweek photographer. BOO! What kind of a name is "Ommanney"? Like, "Oh man, that Ommanney lady is such a drag." I think she's the one in the ads that says, "Boring is something DC is not." But she pronounces it "nawt". Blech. I think we should all get together and just hate the bejeesus out of her. �
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Stacie Scott Turner: Her husband used to work for the mayor of DC. She went to Howard and Harvard. She used to work for BET. Now she's a realtor with 2 kids. My best friend from high school is a realtor with 2 kids. Her name is Amy. She named her dog after Al Gore's wife. (Sadly, I've just learned that Tipper had to be put down yesterday.) �
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Lynda Erkiletian: She's the oldest, a divorced mother of four who owns a modeling agency. I'm bored.
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Mary Schmidt Amons: Socialite. I think that's code for housewife. Hey, I'm a socialite too! She and her husband have 5 kids. BREEDER! Her oldest is named Lolly. Darn, I might like this one. Wait, she might be the one that said the thing about DC not being boring. I can't tell from blondes.
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Michaele Salahi: Not ringing a bell. I have no idea how to pronounce that first name, but I imagine we'll find out. Her bio at Bravo says, "Michaele has met numerous political leaders across the globe." Gee, I wonder who. She worked at Nordstrom before she got married in 2003. Big deal. I worked at Office Depot before I got married in 2002. The scuttlebutt is she has boundary issues.
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Now you know. Tonight (and I'm assuming every Thursday) on Bravo 9/8 CST (Chicago gets everything first). Don't forget. They hardly ever re-air these things. I'll be live-tweeting using the hashtag #rhtcot (real housewives of tcot, which would be a better show) and post recaps on fridays. Cuz that's my funday, my I'm too drunk to run-day.
crossposted on KillTruck
Cowboy Update — And Special Prayer Request
I heard from Cowboy this morning. Clearly, sleep is not on his agenda. And this is understandable. Today is a big day. And it is one that Cowboy is not looking forward to. I don't blame him.
I go in this morning for scans of my liver. In an hour, I *get* to start drinking a contrasting fluid so that my different internal parts will show up better on the films.
The stuff is NOT yummy!
Then, to the Radiation department, where I'll be "tabled" and run part way through a scanning tube.
This is the most serious of the tests I'll have done this week. The blood and urine samples will show some stuff--much of it the doctors already know, like that my kidneys and liver don't function as fully as they should. When I started chemo back in the late -70's, they put me on massive doses of what was then an experimental chemical. Though they checked kidney and liver function constantly, there was still a lot of damage done that couldn't be helped.
Late term effects to treatment like this are only recently being studied seriously. I'm not sure, but I think at least part of the reason these effects have been ignored is that doctors, researchers, and patients have considered the effects as the price they pay to still be alive. It's only been recently, when cancer survivor rates have increased so dramatically, that people have been comfortable asking questions about what this stuff will do to you down the road.
Anyway, I'm babbling because I'm nervous. I've been awake (nerves) since 3 AM. I'll be ok once the test is over, even though I won't know anything about the results for a maddeningly long time.
What this means is that Cowboy is going into the thick of it. And he has requested prayers to help see him through.
my family could use more of your prayers this morning at about 11:00.
So, I would kindly request that each of you of faith take a moment out of your hectic mornings to remember to God our brother, Cowboy (Mathew).
Toward the end of doing what we can on his behalf as he struggles through today, I would like to start us off with the following:
Dearest Jesus, today we humbly request that you stand at the side of your Father's adopted son, Mathew. Please for the sake of this faithful servant of God, provide comfort to Mathew - lessen his anxiety - increase his confidence in Your Promises. Let Your Love overwhelm him in the knowing that you are indeed present with him through his trials today. Offer him strength to persevere, as you did when the most Holy Cross was hoisted on your bloody shoulder. Permit us, his friends, to assist Mathew from afar... should he begin to stumble, let us be there to lighten his load to the extent possible - if only to provide for him a moment to catch his breath. Let our prayers be like a cool, damp cloth on his forehead, a sponge to his lips, loving arms of comfort.
Holy Spirit, please heed our request! Our brother, Mathew, is in need of thy presence and guidance today! Descend upon him so as to produce calm in his anxious heart. We entreat Thee to fill him with strength to face today's challenges with grace... with the knowing that today's sufferings can be placed at the foot of the Altar of God as a most holy and worthy sacrifice on behalf of all souls in need of the Christ's Mercy. Be with him today, most Holy Spirit, Giver of Wisdom.
Father, we beseech Thee! Your adopted son, Mathew, is in need of Your Strength today. Place a hand on his shoulder, Glorious Father! He is a soldier for Your Son, Our Lord, the Christ!
Oh, most Gracious Virgin, Mathew is in need of your courage today. As you witnessed the suffering of your most Blessed Child on the Most Holy Cross... as you witnessed His resolve to die so that we might live... as you witnessed His Suffering on our behalf, you provided comfort to Him by staying close to Him. Please, template of Motherly Love, pray for our brother Mathew today - that his suffering be not in vain, but lend to those in most need of Your Son's Mercy!
We ask this through Christ, Our Lord, Amen
Weak-Kneed Softies Need Not Apply
As regular readers will no doubt know (if they take the time to read the tripe I post), I am not always given to being warm and fuzzy. I mean, at times, I like to think I am decidedly loving towards my fellow man. Yet, I have struggled throughout my life with my creatureliness - I mean the darker components of my person. The struggle has mostly to do with being too frequently too brash for the sensibilities of Society in the main. When I was a wee child, I had quite the opposite problem: I felt things very deeply. And was always a sucker for a good story... even if told by the BTK Killer, for example. But life has a funny way of forcing us to choose... and in many ways the saddest of all of God's creatures are those who are "in the middle" and refuse to announce themselves. Those that fail to commit themselves to one path over the other. I do not mean to communicate that I am without love or mercy. That is not the case at all. Let us say that one of my many struggles has to do with my merit-based approach to love and mercy. I am trying my best to be a Catholic Man and follow the path of the Christ. Sadly, as I become more acclimated with the Saints and their stories... and especially the Doctors of our Faith... I find I am rather far from any notion of sainthood. The saving Grace is that I know it. I suppose that is a good thing. This preamble is, of course, meant to sate some sort of need for me to make sure that, 1) I am not written off in the ramblings below as a ruthless sort (because I am not), or 2) what I profess is some sort of recommendation for others to embrace (because I am not intent on doing that either). Please, dear reader, take this post in the spirit it is intended and forgive me in advance for being an opinionated fuck. Oh, and pardon the uncensored expletives as well.
On a rather warm day last summer it became obvious to me and my business partner that it was time for us to move on... to leave our assignment at a local Web Shop. We had been hired to turn the place from a pathetic excuse for a market leader into just that. The assignment was a success and the shop was deconstructed and rebuilt in the image and likeness of what we heartily believed was lacking in gallons... namely, testosterone.
Now, before anyone accuses me of not enjoying the company of women or respecting their abilities, I will tell you that many of the sharp-shooters we hired to remake the shop were in fact women. As in they had balls of steel though they were women. And, again, many of the people we whacked were at least physiologically men. As in, they had penises... though they were dick-less.
Business Management 101 - Many of the most valuable lessons I learned in regard to running a business (being a "boss") have come from my brother, Fishman. And I have used those lessons (his philosophy) to great effect. And I can testify that they work. And if my word isn't good enough, ask anyone who I have been blessed to manage (except for those I inherited and had to dispatch). Among the chief lessons learned to me by my good brother are the following:
1) A great team can accomplish anything
2) A great team is comprised of great individuals
3) great individuals love responsibility
4) great bosses never provide responsibility without also providing authority
5) great people resent being micro-managed
6) great bosses do not micro-manage
7) great people are capable of making proper decisions without being micro-managed
8 ) great people are still people and therefore make mistakes
9) great bosses allow for mistakes - and do not punish wrong decisions made in the heat of battle
10) bosses that do punish for poor decisions made by great people in the heat of battle will end up having to micro-manage
11) nothing good happens when bosses micro-manage
What my brother's business management philosophy points to is that the best professionals (managers and reports alike) have several things in common. First and foremost is that they are rugged individualists. This does not mean they are not team-oriented. Quite the opposite. They know when to lead, when to follow, when to lend a hand, when to escalate, when to push, when to pull, when to placate, when to throw a knock-out punch...
I would be lying if I told you that there are a lot of such people. Frankly, they are like diamonds in the rough. But as a hiring manager, it has been my job to determine who is who. And I have been enormously blessed to have found such a vein of gold in this tiny market of Milwaukee. So I do know they exist. And I know what a team of said people can do.
But the opposite is more common. And maybe it is that I am growing into middle-age now and my perspective has skewed. But I sense more of softies in the marketplace than ever. I mean really soft, smooshy professionals. Those droves of unrepentant nary a giver of offense. Those who dress nice and say the right things... but for whom an utterance of strong opinion has never crossed the threshold of their respective pie-holes. These are the worst! I call them sorry sacks. We all know people who fit this description. They hide and get along. They provide no real value except for maybe a round of drinks at the bar. They provide no insight. They take no risks. They veer away from difficult situations. They act out their Libra-esque scenarios, never failing to fail to commit. Check-takers really. Impossibly nice and amiable... like a chunk of plush carpeting. Never taking a stand. Never voicing opposition. Never "rocking the boat".
I don't hire these people. Not because they aren't nice. Not because they do not have inherent dignity as human beings. But precisely because they are, in the sense of business, complete wastes of space. It seems to me many of these people end up in education. Many in government jobs too. Going along to get along.
So , pardon me for stating the obvious in a less-than PC manner. And apologies in advance for saying what many are thinking but haven't had a chance to blog on before:
we survived because our forebearers were mutherfuckers
and so, in their memory, I am reconciled to die in the manner that will please their memory
and this soft-shoes cunt-licking effeminization of business must stop
What does this all mean?
- do not work for someone who has a stack of business management books
- do not hire "action coaches" - unless you would also consider hiring a "life coach"
- no feel good team-building explorations of feelings
- do treat people well
- do empower great employees by giving them clear directives, responsibility, and the authority to make decisions
- do not take yourself too seriously
I denounce myself in advance.
That is all.
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