Wot Happened to Maureen?

Paul Ryan, who teamed up with Akin in the House to sponsor harsh anti-abortion bills, may look young and hip and new generation, with his iPod full of heavy metal jams and his cute kids. But he’s just a fresh face on a Taliban creed — the evermore antediluvian, anti-women, anti-immigrant, anti-gay conservative core. Amiable in khakis and polo shirts, Ryan is the perfect modern leader to rally medieval Republicans who believe that Adam and Eve cavorted with dinosaurs.

In asserting that women have the superpower to repel rape sperm, Akin ratcheted up the old chauvinist argument that gals who wear miniskirts and high-heels are “asking” for rape; now women who don’t have the presence of mind to conjure up a tubal spasm, a drone hormone, a magic spermicidal secretion or mere willpower to block conception during rape are “asking” for a baby. Moar

Food! Glorious Food!

A fruit tart of nectarines.
By FLORENCE FABRICANT
Published: August 21, 2012

MOST summer stone fruit — peaches, plums, nectarines, apricots — are candidates for a pretty tart. Fresh figs qualify, too. I cut the fruit into quarters or eighths, depending on their size, then crowd the wedges so that they stand at attention in tight concentric circles on a pastry shell. I dust the fruit with sugar and, as a typical recipe demands, I would dot the top with butter. Moar

A Pancake Brings Corn and Berries Together

By MELISSA CLARK
Published: August 17, 2012
AT the beginning of the summer, my farm share inundated me with bowling-ball-size cabbages for six weeks straight. I made mountains of slaw and then just started giving the cabbages away. Moar
Recipe: Puffy Corn Pancake With Blackberry Sauce

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The Bozo Event Horizon -- How Companies Go Bad

The Bozo Event Horizon
Jim Waldo - July 27, 2012 @ 2:25 pm · Uncategorized

I’m on a Harvard mailing list for some folks interested in startups and innovation. A recent thread of discussion was around hiring, and in a posting to the group I talked about making sure that you did your hiring so that you avoided the bozo effect. I was asked by a number of people what I meant by that, which led to a long post that generated some interest. So I thought it might be of interest to a wider audience, as well. So I’m posting it here…

On hiring, bozos, and some (admittedly biased) history

Some time ago on this list I sent out a message concerning hiring, and mentioned that you need to avoid bozos if you want your company to survive. I said in that post

It is a truism that good people want to work with other good people; a corollary to this is that bozos attract other bozos. Once the bozo count reaches a certain percentage, the company is doomed (I saw this happen from the outside to Digital Equipment Co. and from the inside to Sun; I’mworried that Google may have hit the bozo event horizon).

A number of you asked, either privately or publicly, if I would expand on this, and perhaps talk about what happened at Sun and DEC, and what I’m seeing happening at Google (and what I mean by a bozo). These are difficult topics, some intellectually so and others emotionally so. But I’ve been thinking about this for a bit, and I’ll give it a try. Moar

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