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[LMNO]

However, it's also the reason you're not doing the hiring.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Well, as dad said, "always hire people smarter than you."

The perfect employee is 20% smarter than yourself, with insanely low self-esteem and/or no leadership ambition.

This is why I never have a problem finding a decent job.

Faking a lack of ambition isn't very hard.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

However, it's also the reason you're not doing the hiring.

But I do the hiring.   

[LMNO]

Pardon my confusion.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

Well, as dad said, "always hire people smarter than you."

The perfect employee is 20% smarter than yourself, with insanely low self-esteem and/or no leadership ambition.

This is why I never have a problem finding a decent job.

Faking a lack of ambition isn't very hard.

To be honest, I do have ambition. I seem to get by using the related but different tactic of being "unassuming." In the past 8 years I have quintupled my income without going to college. I'm not without ambition, I just apply it without trying or appearing to be a threat to my boss' job. Also, I'll admit there's a fair amount of luck that has gone into it.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/10/17678244-journalists-watch-as-reporter-faces-jail-time-for-not-revealing-sources?lite

[The Good Reverend Roger]

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/10/17688268-dog-tied-to-railroad-tracks-saved-by-eagle-eyed-engineer?lite

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/10/17688268-dog-tied-to-railroad-tracks-saved-by-eagle-eyed-engineer?lite

How old WAS that guy that he came up with a stunt like that?
The Perils of Pauline came out in 1914, I just checked. 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/10/17691775-social-conservatives-warn-priebus-they-could-abandon-gop?lite

MELTDOWN.   

[tyrannosaurus vex]

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/10/17691775-social-conservatives-warn-priebus-they-could-abandon-gop?lite

MELTDOWN.   

Indeed!

Including such timeless classics as,

"The fact that the party is strongly committed to traditional marriage has not prevented their involvement through GOProud or Log Cabin Republicans," they wrote. "We deeply resent the insinuation that we have treated homosexuals unkindly personally."

I mean, for fuck's sake, talk about privilege. The fact that this statement can even be written without the author dying of internal hemorrhaging brought on by its gut-wrenching self-inflicted irony is a deeply satisfying testament to the GOP's continued dominance of the "Somebody chop down all these trees, they're blocking my view of the forest!" market.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

LOLZ

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/10/17691775-social-conservatives-warn-priebus-they-could-abandon-gop?lite

MELTDOWN.   

CUT 'EM LOOSE.

PREDICTION: The GOP cuts their most radical social conservatives loose, and begins making a slow arc towards social progressiveness. Meanwhile, the Democrats will continue their slide into conservatism.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/10/17691775-social-conservatives-warn-priebus-they-could-abandon-gop?lite

MELTDOWN.   

CUT 'EM LOOSE.

PREDICTION: The GOP cuts their most radical social conservatives loose, and begins making a slow arc towards social progressiveness. Meanwhile, the Democrats will continue their slide into conservatism.

You're probably right about this... the Blue Dog Democrats are holding the door open for these people, and once the GOP finds its footing with a coalition between social progressives and fiscal conservatives, the parties will probably return to their original configurations -- Republicans for banksters, and Democrats for .. uhh.. well, also banksters. But their sales pitches, at least, will swap places, as you predict.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/10/17691775-social-conservatives-warn-priebus-they-could-abandon-gop?lite

MELTDOWN.   

CUT 'EM LOOSE.

PREDICTION: The GOP cuts their most radical social conservatives loose, and begins making a slow arc towards social progressiveness. Meanwhile, the Democrats will continue their slide into conservatism.

You're probably right about this... the Blue Dog Democrats are holding the door open for these people, and once the GOP finds its footing with a coalition between social progressives and fiscal conservatives, the parties will probably return to their original configurations -- Republicans for banksters, and Democrats for .. uhh.. well, also banksters. But their sales pitches, at least, will swap places, as you predict.

Uhhh...weren't the repubs originally a coalition of antislavery forces?

[tyrannosaurus vex]

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/10/17691775-social-conservatives-warn-priebus-they-could-abandon-gop?lite

MELTDOWN.   

CUT 'EM LOOSE.

PREDICTION: The GOP cuts their most radical social conservatives loose, and begins making a slow arc towards social progressiveness. Meanwhile, the Democrats will continue their slide into conservatism.

You're probably right about this... the Blue Dog Democrats are holding the door open for these people, and once the GOP finds its footing with a coalition between social progressives and fiscal conservatives, the parties will probably return to their original configurations -- Republicans for banksters, and Democrats for .. uhh.. well, also banksters. But their sales pitches, at least, will swap places, as you predict.

Uhhh...weren't the repubs originally a coalition of antislavery forces?

They were opposed to [expanding] slavery, sure. But it wasn't all moral high-horse. It was also "let's take what we perceive as an unfair economic advantage of the South away from them." The moral argument was convenient, not necessarily primary.