People rightly despise economists because they say things like this : Professor Lerman, the American University economist, said some high school graduates would be better served by being taught how to behave and communicate in the workplace . Such skills are ranked among the most desired — even ahead of educational attainment — in many surveys of employers. In one 2008 survey of more than 2,000 businesses in Washington State, employers said entry-level workers appeared to be most deficient in being able to “solve problems and make decisions,” “resolve conflict and negotiate,” “cooperate with others” and “listen actively.” [emphases mine] How to behave and communicate in which “the workplace”?
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Birth School Work Death
Prepare to be gobsmacked : BP’s safety violations far outstrip its fellow oil companies. According to the Center for Public Integrity, in the last three years, BP refineries in Ohio and Texas have accounted for 97 percent of the “egregious, willful” violations handed out by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) ..
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Seven Hundred Sixty
A couple of days after I first broached the topic , active dot com still sucks: In a sense, the message here is trivially true — I have, in fact, already submitted this portion of the form. I attempted to get all the way through this form no less than seven times on two different computers
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Active Update
A cavalier, devil-may-care insouciance famously comes more easily to some than to others — casual declarations on the conditions aboard slave ships no doubt came rather easily to wealthy antebellum southern “gentlemen,” the travails and pains of combat seem to flow with uncanny ease from the rhetoric of men who couldn’t find the time to sign up when their time came. All of which brings me, naturally, to the status of individual privacy, autonomy, and integrity as seen from the mountain of gold from which Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, regards the world : The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly …
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Strong Opinions from Above
Julian Baggini has enumerated “ten of the greatest philosophical principles of all time,” one of which invites special application to current events — that “ought implies can”: How often do people insist that ‘Something should be done’ even though they’ve no idea what that something is?
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Feckless
I expect that organizing a running event can only be a thankless task, so let me add to that thanklessness in the short term in the hopes of reducing it down the line: Do not use Active dot com . Catch that? I will make it bigger and bolder: Do not use Active dot com.
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To Race Oranizers – Please Deactivate
The latest episode of Breaking Bad turned out to be, of all things, a play by Samuel Beckett or Eugene Ionesco — two characters in a tight scene facing an absurd situation, swinging between bickering and cooperating, frivolous and deadly serious. We the viewers are not sure if we should laugh, weep, or rage at what we see. Does it make sense?
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Breaking Bad – On the Verge
America is spewing forth like a broken deep-sea oil well over at America Speaks Out , the Wide Stance party’s latest effort to perpetuate their brand of intentional and unintentional parody masquerading as public policy. Naturally, or so I have chosen to suggest, I have signed up and have begun offering my own suggestions.
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The Blurred Line Between Parody and the GOP
A blogger has certain responsibilities, not the least being the need to follow up when unctuous political figures convert something as forgettable as a state seal into an opportunity for moralistic grandstanding . In the same spirit as NPR’s treatment of this important matter, I offer my own appraisals of selected state seals
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Great Seals I’ve Known
A clip from Richard Dawkins’ Lecture at UC Berkeley: bit.ly – via www.AtheistMedia.com
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Richard Dawkins: If Science Worked Like Religion