Scott Adams Strikes Again...

I am in complete awe of Scott Adams' ability to find humor in the current business (and technology) world.  As a former (and recovering) manager and executive, I've been on all sides of this issue.  I was CEO of an enterprise software company when the “dot-com bubble” burst, and how to present the issue to employees was one of the many issues we wrestled with.

My favorite frame is the next-to-last one.  Getting middle-level managers to agree on which employees would be laid off in a downsizing was agonizingly difficult, and almost always required me to decide for many of them.  Scott Adams' solution to this challenge seems very attractive in the abstract...

Conservative Puppies For Sale...

So says Mark Steyn, in his inimitable fashion.  These golden retriever puppies are being sold by a friend of his.  One sentence in his puppy endorsement particularly caught my eye:

They're fun for young and old, and are genetically programmed to savage Howard Dean if he shows up late at night to push government health care on you.

Heh!