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Badde wackaloon shitte happens when business processes are designed by people who haven’t the slightest fucken clue how the real business actually gets done, and they are so fucken deluded by their own cleverness that they don’t even realize how fucken clueless they are. And yes, the people who actually have to get the fucken …

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While I guess this is good, can someone explain to me how the older law is not without-any-question-whatsoever in violation of the Fourth Amendment? The Senate Judiciary Committee voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to require police to obtain a warrant before reading people’s emails, Facebook messages and other forms of electronic communication. * * * The …

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There has been some discussion in the past about the recently implemented NIH policy to disallow second resubmissions of unfunded grant applications (“A2″ applications). As I have pointed out, the idea that it is “unfair” to disallow A2 application because it means that “meritorious applications go unfunded” is completely fucken delusional and can only make …

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Can someone please explain to me where this deranged idea came from that the US Postal Service needs to “operate like a business” and “be profitable”? Last I checked, mail delivery was a government service just like building and maintaining roads, police and fire departments, air traffic control, DMVs, etc. Where did this fucked uppe …

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Have you ever known someone who, when confronted with a subtle judgment call, invariably makes the wrong call?

Sometimes when I go in the bathroom, I look at myself in the mirror and sneer and flippe myself offe. This keeps me from getting complacent.

A great new strip is from Kaz’s Underworld, an awesome comic world created by Kazimieras “Kaz” G. Prapuoleni.

This comment by Doug Broome of Vancouver that I read today on a NY Times op-ed resonates with the fucken truth: If inequality were a an hour-long parade the first 10 minutes would be invisible since the marchers have negative worth and consequently are underground. You would then have tiny marchers of up to a …

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Is it possible that some people genuinely don’t perceive an e-mail with the specific question in it “When do you expect to complete blah task?” as soliciting a response, but rather see it as some sort of rhetorical question or general encouragement?