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Saturday, April 02, 2016

Quote of the Day

The real role of leadership is to manage the values of an organization.

- Tom Peters and Robert Waterman

Friday, April 01, 2016

Dividing Rather Than Uniting

Christina Hoff Sommers on Intersectional Feminism.

Double-Standard on Anti-Semitism

It has seemed to me that a vast double standard regarding what constitutes prejudice exists on American college campuses. There is hypersensitivity to prejudice against most minority groups but what might be called hyper-insensitivity to anti-Semitism.

Read the rest of the Larry Summers essay at The Washington Post.

Stealing with Your Eyes

Sippican Cottage, writing from the wilds of Maine, looks back on the days when he acquired the skills to tackle a plumbing job that would have thwarted a team of television home improvement types. This is interesting reading for anyone but especially if you are a home repair enthusiast. An excerpt:

The payoff was that you got to work with people who knew their arse from their elbow. You would receive a certain amount of instruction. This instruction was supplied in the form of abuse, delivered in vibrant Anglo-Saxon, accompanied by a threat to be fired if you did whatever it was you did again. For the most part, you were required to be cautious, quiet, and "steal with your eyes" if you wanted to learn things. You would work right next to men who were very accomplished carpenters, painters, roofers, electricians, plumbers, landscapers, stonemasons, concrete finishers, or skilled at various other trades. They were also very accomplished drunks, and could show you a thing or two about getting yourself outside a quart of Four Roses while still being able to show up early for work the next day. They accomplished marvelous things, if you loved single-family houses the way I did, and if you paid attention, you could learn how to do it yourself.