Well, what do you know about that?
Obama’s speech in Raleigh launching his economy tour is underway, and towards the end, during a discussion of health care, he drops a surprise aside that wasn’t in the speech’s prepared remarks:
“By the way, I’m going to be partnering with Elizabeth Edwards, we’re going to be figuring all this out.”
Worst. Job. Ever.
Although I liked this article’s focus on fairness as the main reason for burnout, I wish this hadn’t been in there: Burnout has been long associated with being overworked and underpaid, but psychologists Christina Maslach and Michael Leiter found that these were not the crucial factors. The single biggest difference between employees who suffered burnout and those who did not was the whether they thought that they were being treated unfairly or fairly. It’s not…
Using people’s personal angers against them
I’m in a sympathetic mood, because I just finished listening to Mat Johnson on a podcast talking about the diehard Clinton supporters who have clearly projected their own struggles onto Hillary Clinton and are taking her defeat in the primary as a referendum on their very right to be in…
For some reason, I find this comforting
We’re not the only ones who have our priorities straight: [Opposition leader] David Cameron has revealed his much commented upon centre-parting at last week’s prime minister’s questions was the result of wearing a bike helmet. Mr Cameron, who normally parts his hair to one side, had a new look for…
It’s a man’s, man’s Midol world
I hadn’t seen the outrageous recent ad by the menstrual pain reliever Midol, but it hasn’t gone unnoticed. Unlike this ridiculous ad from the 1960s (“Betty’s Gay with Midol”, today’s marketing geniuses decided that the new slogan for the product should be “Midol, Reverse the Curse.” The ad was described…
Dance, hypocrites, dance!
For blatantly partisan reasons, I hope that H. Ross Perot makes a big stink out of the story of McCain’s first wife. From what I understand of the wingnut mind, the people already wary of McCain will feel vindicated about using his POW status against him as evidence that he’s…
Aluminum!
Fred Hiatt breaks through the hemp-lined flower shield of dirty hippiedom and throws some truth in our faces: But dive into Rockefeller’s report, in search of where exactly President Bush lied about what his intelligence agencies were telling him about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, and you may be…
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Pandagon is the go-to zone for eye-rolling at conservative nonsense, feminist rants, election-watching, and obsessing over low-rated but critically acclaimed television. Jesse Taylor and Amanda Marcotte may take politics very seriously, but egos not so much.
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