G as in Good H as in Happy

Do they think that jobs just fall from the sky?

March 26, 2006

Claire Berlinski on France's permanent employment law, and its portents for economic disaster.

If the CPE is enacted, said one young woman, "You'll get a job knowing that you've got to do every single thing they ask you to do because otherwise you may get sacked."

Imagine that.

The horror. The horror!

"How Very Different*": What Are They Thinking?

Mark Steyn comments on what The Anchoress calls a  giant, cosmic gauntlet thrown down from on High, not least toward the supporters of US policy based on hope for change in the Middle East.

Wombats in Life and Rhetoric

March 25, 2006

We mostly enjoy Assistant Village Idiot when he comments on the psychol-blogs like Dr. Sanity and Shrinkwrapped.  Like so many lazy habits of ours, when we forget to take a regular look at his blog, we're only hurting ourselves.

Here, simply as an example, is a pitch-perfect profile of "causes."

Nigel or Fiona develops a vision of what the world should look like, or even better, what it shouldn’t look like but is sure as hell going to if the conservatives have their way.

There's more. The wombat union will protest.

It appears the Assistant's R&D on the wadical ewadicator proceeds apace.

A Story that Hits in the Middle of the Racquet

Sometimes it's just good to read it. A short piece by Scott Adams on a tennis player.

Not for the First Time...

March 22, 2006
...Dilys cannibalizes something tossed off elsewhere.

Bacterial Identity Politics...

March 21, 2006
...over at Dr. Sanity's and Gagdad's. Dilys says, rummaging for her crayons, Even if you can't be as clever as some, you can always draw a little picture.










Incidentally:

Once upon a time...

...the personally meanest, most contemptuous, dancing-on-the-throat vulture-excretion of an op-ed piece that ever contaminated the Sunday American-Statesman would have gone unchallenged. Maybe some letters to the editor of the Los Angeles Times syndicator in the next week or so, from evident, dismissable sputtering conservatives.

Now, blogs flag the play.

Health Care, from Feverishly Stupid to 98.6

March 20, 2006

Will Wilkinson, call the RAND Corporation. Stat.

Comparison

March 19, 2006

"...The comparison is not to some ideal world where everything was hunky-dory."

The restored Betsy's Page surfaces the key corrective to many complaints.  If I compare myself to a life in which I would have everything I have now, my friends and education, plus Paris Hilton's dog and Bill Gates' stock portfolio, the emotional outcome is assured --

I will feel miserable, and deprived.

If I think about the actualities and imponderables from which I have been spared -- Paris Hilton's education and Bill Gates' wardrobe --

life looks quite rich.

Let our accountings be approximate, and realistic. Surprisingly, reality-orientation produces less red ink and many more optimistic & grateful footnotes of anticipated future profit.

What in the World is Daddy Doing?

Baby giggles.

You'll want sound.

Courtesy Wittingshire