Job For John: "Last Thursday, July 24th I was downsized from my job of 3 years at a software company. Later the same day I heard that President Bush's economic team would be doing a bus tour through Wisconsin and Minnesota this week touting Bush's tax cut and its prosperous economic effects. 'What a bunch of BS. I'd like to give their PR tour a dose of reality,' is what I thought. So I packed up the minivan and decided to follow their bus around the countryside and talk to whoever would listen about the real facts -- that this economy stinks, and Bush's tax cuts are making it worse." [Scripting News]
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I'm sure I've ranted about this before, but remember, only two types of people brag about being in Microsoft beta programs: liars and cheats. Well, OK, maybe there's a third category: careless people. Read the NDAs you signed, people. From time immemorial, Microsoft beta program NDAs have prohibited discussing the beta program, or even the fact that you are involved in the beta program.
Geoffrey Nunberg is one of my favorite NPR commentators and makes some great points in this New York Times: Business column: Initiating Mission-Critical Jargon Reduction. "Over the past 20 years, business has replaced government in the public mind as the chief perpetrator of doublespeak." The killer sentence, for me:
The corporation was created as a legal fiction to reduce personal responsibility.
