Many of my classmates have expressed skepticism about the potential for finding a job or otherwise furthering one’s career through LinkedIn. While I tend to share their skepticism, I feel that perhaps we are not the community for which LinkedIn is intended. So rather than analyze my own (minimal) use of the service, I decided to interview my father, who was in California last week for a speaking engagement. Coincidentally, he was hired to speak as a result of a connection made through his LinkedIn network.

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…and is in rare form. Dong Resin on Rumsfeld:

I love how these republicans are all so law and order/ responsibility-for-one’s-actions until they get caught out. Then suddenly there’s a whole lot of “complexity.”

Their problems are complex, not simple, not like homelessness, which is what just happens when you’re lazy, or drug addiction, which is what just happens when you’re lazy and weak, or AIDS which is what happens when you’re Freddy Mercury. My God, he had that shit coming to him, didn’t he. I saw him fuck a panda once, he was insatiable. No, they get what they deserve, and how about a little self control/personal responsibility next time, you sad losers.

Oh, but ineptitude on a global level? No, that shit is nuanced. Better have a discussion, and keep that guy on while we do it. He has a reputation.

I’m so happy that the joint is back right in time for me to actually have time to read it.