Houston I love these stories where people are undone by being too slick in their efforts to outsmart the system. Karl Rove and the Republican National Committee folks fit these gloves perfectly and the story of the RNC setting up an alternative email and blackberry system for political operatives in the White House is just …
Month: April 2007
Office Politics
Houston Dead tired flying between Houston and New Orleans, somehow my eyes stopped on a column in the Wall Street Journal that a neighbor on the Southwest shuttle had left on the chair. Way too long and much too much about the office politics of sucking up to get ahead, but still interesting in its …
Waiting for an Apology
Houston According the funny papers, Wal-Mart has started apologizing to some of the groups that it considered “threats” for its surveillance activities, saying essentially to some of them that, “Hey, we didn’t mean to do anything bad to you, and we’re sorry, y’all!” Must be another problem because we have not received our apology …