Man, I love any live performer that changes it up every time. True commitment to the craft in that.

I feel so pensive and sad today. I was going to post Willie Nelson’s cover of Have You Ever Seen the Rain as a result, because it is also pensive, but while getting ready to do that, I ran across this. It’s not pensive or sad. Now I feel better, though I do feel like I need a cocktail with a little umbrella in it as…

One of the few pure pleasures of being a boss, right there.

Pretty much everything in Indiana is fucked though, really.

It’s not so much a “Right to Not Work” as a “Right to Pay Your Employer To Employ You” law. Subtle but important.

+1 for synergy of name and comment.

Yeah, it’s plenty creepy without having to spell it out.

Longer.

This is it. Exactly right.

I agree. But we’re both over 30, I’m pretty sure (I know I am), and have some varied life experience. The message of Hamilton’s post is critically important and I am in no way arguing with it because I believe it with all my heart. But I think that the OP brings up an important point, which is that for many young…

If you decide to go back in, I hope you will also write a book, or a blog, or something, about it. A voice like yours needs to be heard. Maybe you could have a column here. I don’t know. The situation is so volatile and bizarre it’s impossible to know what to do. I wish you the best good fortune, whatever you decide.

It’s an important point though. I mean, what Hamilton is discussing is important, but it’s also important to note that a not insignificant number of people join because of the benefits it offers, which they don’t see another good way of getting, like access to college. In order to allow people to choose something…

I can’t speak for Dave or for anyone else, but I can report something I observed. In Vietnam combat vets it wasn’t racism or xenophobia that made them jumpy around Vietnamese people, it was PTSD.

If enough of them had to be fired/court-marshalled/forced to resign because they were resisting orders, it might prevent a catastrophe.

I was just reading tonight that the Koch brothers are unhappy with Mr. Trumps activities recently. I’m always happy to hear the Koch brothers are unhappy, but never thought it would be for the same reasons I’m unhappy.

I would like to work in the Budapest office, but I guess existing staffers have dibs on that probably?

That’s funny. I bet they hate that.

Yes, I was pleased to discover that the Senior Senator from my state had three full mailboxes for me to go through before I found an office where I could leave a message.

I think they’ll start to wake up when the economy starts to collapse again. Which, given how things are going, should be about mid February.

It depends on how you look at it. But at this point, you (and I) have a chance to influence someone in a way that actually makes a difference. Another person I was talking to yesterday about this says basically something along the lines of, “pick one thing, figure out what to do about it, and then do that thing or…