Does anyone know of/has anyone had experience with, any career counseling outfits that aren't designed to help well-set bourgoisie through their mid-life crises, thereby making their advice completely irrelevant and, indeed, insultingly useless for us paycheck-to-paycheck sorts who depend on (hollow laughter) public transit and Shanks' Mare, and ( Read more... )

Via dKossack Sherlock Google, a rundown of Virtue Party patronage scandals getting too big to squelch, with an Action Alert of websites to scour and save down or screenshot against memoryholing.

It was just last week that I wrote about this right here ("The Mafia does it all the time."In between I started researching and working on a post ( Read more... )

You may have already seen this discussed elsewhere - GM fires 30,000 workers - and you may also have realized this was likely to be coming, given the state of General Motors' finances and the frequent discussions of it on NPR's Marketplace ( Read more... )