Boulder is a Stoopid Place

Unlike Their Rubio Probing, NY Times Skipped Covering Obamas Tickets, Student Loans Stunned….  simply stunned. The childish NYT’s keeps lowering the standard for “all the news that’s fit to print.”

There’s no doubt The New York Times is showing an aggression in covering Marco Rubio that they did not show for Obama eight years ago. After the alleged “scoop” of Rubio’s four parking tickets over 18 years last Friday (and in Saturday’s paper), the Times on Tuesday ran a big piece on how Rubio is supposedly a disaster when it comes to his own personal finances: “a series of decisions over the past 15 years that experts called imprudent,” the Times wrote.  The Washington Free Beacon reported quickly that Harold Evensky, the key financial advisor quoted in the Times story as saying Rubio’s debt accumulation was “staggering” and he was “living financially dangerously” — is an Obama donor.

LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman on the biggest lie employers tell employees – Vox

“The biggest lie is that the employment relationship is like family,” Hoffman says.

He goes on to describe two versions of the lie. “One is where the employer is actually deluding themselves.” Employers may want to believe their workplace really is like a family, and, in that moment, they may convince themselves it actually is like a family.

The other version of the lie comes because the employer wants the employee to believe it. “They really want the employee to be loyal to the company,” Hoffman continues. “That’s when it gets deceptive.”

But the employer-employee relationship isn’t like a family. “You don’t fire your kid because of bad grades,” Hoffman says.

Mr. Hoffman wants to fix this situation, and here is his suggestion…

And now he wants both workers and employers to begin having honest conversations with each other — conversations that admit employment isn’t for life, that loyalty only lasts so long as it coincides with self-interest, and that the relationship doesn’t have to end when the worker leaves.

Color me skeptical.

Word of warning: The HR department at your company is NOT your friend.

Stoopid idiot rich folk, get out there and pay your fair share. If fact, pay and pay until you aren’t Rich anymore. When will Atlas Shrug?

This Robert Heinlein quote comes to mind:

“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as “bad luck.”

As a nation, we are getting closer and closer to “bad luck.”

Elite education combined with no common sense – Alan Blinder: The Unsettling Mystery of Productivity – WSJ

In The Wall Street Journal, Alan Blinder writes that since 2010 U.S. productivity has grown at a miserable rate. And no one, not even the Fed, seems to understand why.

For Second Year In A Row Mother’s Day Could Bring Denver Snow « CBS Denver. Good think they call it climate change.

A cold and wet storm system will be in the region this weekend making for a tricky forecast.