I’ve come to a similar theory. Most of the CEOs I’ve know were pretty eccentric, which I guess is common with ambitious people, though there are laid back ones. The zealous CEOs can also be annoying as shit and have no idea how their product is actually made. I don’t need a peptalk every single time we have a meeting…

Absolutely agree with getting “filtered out”. Most of my friends and I are in corporate middle management. We enjoy leading our teams and put up with the bullshit that comes out of the exec suite. But looking at the nonsense that those execs live through every day (most of it self-created, because they are all…

I have the nasty suspicion that a high percentage of successful, self-made businesspeople are sociopaths. I also suspect that the drive to be famous - not to pursue professions like acting that sometimes lead to fame, but the desire for the fame part of it on its own - is something generally seen in people with a…

Rhetorical question, but: why are businesspeoplewho market themselves as edgy, hip people (and among those are women who brand themselves as feminists and use that as a marketing ploy) also fucking crazy? Grabbing your subordinate’s breast? The fuck is this shit?

I’m of Chinese descent, and I see disturbing echos between the current administration and the Chinese government.

Isn’t having secret, unwritten laws the hallmark of a dictatorship?

No worries. I think a lot of people are reading my comment as saying those policies are “bad” rather than just unpopular, and going from there, even though the two are unrelated. Like, the constitutional rights of the accused are far more unpopular than any socialist policy. Still good.

There’s totally a plan. My girlfriend read it. She’s Canadian, you wouldn’t know her.

Hey Rand, I know someone who can help find this national treasure.

Nope! Hitler was using the language of the left in order to discredit it.

This bit of theater is designed to generate precisely that kind of complacency.

Each Republican in his or her own time will find that indeed, to paraphrase Orwell, some Republicans are more equal than others.

So, wait, they decried the Dems and glamed Dems rushed through ACA without anybody knowing what was in it. In response, they won’t tell anybody what’s in the bill or even let the CBO review it before it goes to a floor vote.

Tell me how popular free education is in your neighborhood the next time a school referendum comes up. It may be very disappointing.

Because most of us aren’t socialists. I’m ok with regulation, high taxes on the wealthy, etc. I’m even OK with some measure of state-run industry where it is the most efficient and fair way of doing it (certain energy sectors and healthcare would be the places I’d start). But not comfortable with full-blown socialism.…

Yup! The universal loathed entitlement programs prove this! I can’t tell you how many old people who are begging politicians to take away their Medicare and Social Security! They hate free things they need to live!

We’ll never really know that until we get voter participation above, say, 80%. Right now, less than a quarter of the population is deciding elections, and often out of misinformed fear.

Because most socialist policies are deeply unpopular and would result in massive electoral losses?

No, the name I was born with is MY fucking name. It is on my birth certificate, my license, my credit cards, my email address, the deed to my house, and all of my diplomas/degrees. My brother was given the same last name as I was in the exact same way. Would you tell my brother that his last name is not his, it is our…

You’re not allowed to like shaving your legs without being a bad person?