The Washington Post has an article today about Anne Loehr, a "generational guru" who gives seminars for older execs on how to relate to younger employees. Here are some excerpts:

Cultural markers...have become a useful shorthand that Loehr and her colleagues use to explain assumptions about this emerging generation -- their lefty politics, their ( Read more... )

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Last year I made a plea to Hank Paulson for my share of the bailout money, without success. But now it's a new year, a new administration. Hope and Change are in the air. The Senate's increased stimulus spending up to $838 billion and Treasury Secretary Geithner is bumping the bailout up to a staggering $1.5 trillion. In the light of all these new ( Read more... )

So there's this whole recession thing going on. With all the news swirling around about job cuts, foreclosures, plunging stock markets and government bailouts, it's good to know that the world's most reputable news outlets are focusing on what really matters to the average American in this new uncertain economic climate: recession sex. The New York ( Read more... )

Unfortunate side effect of the recession: seeing Jesse Jackson talking about "targeted stimulation" on CNN.

So now that the big Wall Street bailout bill has passed, who's next in line to beg the government to save them from impending bankruptcy? Another bank? An insurance company? Nope. California. Never very good at managing money, the State of California can't get anyone to lend them money now that the credit market has tightened up and people are only ( Read more... )

Those people who ruin dinner parties because they only eat raw fruit with antioxidants that has been organically grown by left-handed communist peasants are now officially mentally ill. They have their very own eating disorder - orthorexia nervosa.

The term "orthorexic" comes from the Greek ortho, meaning straight and correct, and was first ( Read more... )

Paul Wolfowitz: too hawkish for the DoD, too generous for the World Bank, coming soon to a State Department near you? Rumor (and Reuters) has it that everyone's favorite former SAIS dean may be appointed to the International Security Advisory Board, which tells State everything they need to know about the mean men with the big guns. This guy is ( Read more... )

SecDef Gates asks Congress for $36 billion increase in the annual budget...of the State Department. WHAAAAAAAAAAAA?

Dear France ( Read more... )