An EMT in Connecticut was let go last week after posting disparaging comments about her boss on Facebook. Wrongful termination? Or gross stupidity? Welcome to the New World Turns out, social media is not “the same as” talking at the water cooler. Nor is blogging “the same as” journalism, nor are online videos “the same [...]
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This is Bullsh*t
Last week, California’s Prop 19 failed to get enacted when 53.9% of California’s voting population voted to defeat it. (Prop 19 would have changed marijuana’s legal status.) My friend and Not Fit to Print buddy Carol Roth & I think this was a big-time missed opportunity. Watch: Jason Seiden is Co-founder and CEO of [...]
No shit, they do? Why, yes, teens under report drug use by about 50%! I’m shocked. And by “shocked,” I mean, WTF, people. Another day, another non-newsflash. Scientists seem to attribute this to the fact that admitting to drug use is not socially acceptable, and suggest that to gauge teen drug use levels more accurately, [...]
There is no conspiracy theory, there is only the rectal database. The rectal database is where cheating lovers look for excuses; it’s where consultants go to find answers to their clients’ questions, and it’s where world leaders go to find answers about who to trust in those little geopolitical games that now and then threaten [...]
A few weeks ago on the HR Happy Hour, the question came up of, “Why can’t we all just get along?” The question was asked in an HR context, but it has a global context. And, it’s easily answered: we can get along, but only if we stop wishing the world to be as it [...]
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