Working from home is where it’s at, man. I got more done by ten AM than I normally get done all day (for one thing, I got to “work” at about 5:30) – no distractions, no discomforts, a window to look out of, and no stinky fucking public restroom. If only I could do this more than one day a week. Currently, I’m listening to a rerun of a Fresh Air with Lena Dunham of “Girls” fame. For those who don’t know, Girls is a critically acclaimed HBO “comedy.” I used quotes there, because I frankly think the show is not only not funny, but it’s totally uninteresting (though Brian Williams’ daughter is kinda cute, so it’s got that going for it, at least). I tried to give it a chance, I really did. But I finally gave up on it. I guess I’m just too old to appreciate the self-involved characters or something. And it’s not just me, ‘cuz my wife thinks it’s pretty awful, too. If it wasn’t for Bill Maher coming back next week, I’d dump HBO in a second. But I like Realtime, and I’m too lazy to track it down to watch it in an “alternative” method (though I know it’s not really all that hard to find). Enlightened isn’t bad, either. And then in April (I think) Game of Thrones comes back, and then in the summer comes True Blood. That’s how HBO gets you – there’s typically one or a max of two good shows on at any one time, that I keep shelling out $18 a month for. I guess I’d be better off buying them off Amazon. Oh well, back to work.
Did anyone watch “Newsroom”? I watched all ten episodes last week. I had some misgivings but liked it enough.
pj, maybe you can work it out to have your ‘home’ work day to fall on Wednesday if you catch my drift.
I watched Newsroom, and I liked it a lot. Perfect? No. But pretty damn good, IMHO. Plus Olivia Munn is pretty cute.
Yah, Munn!
I was bothered by some of the music early on. Too Grey’s Anatomy.
Ugh. Looking over my post from yesterday, I noticed there were lots of things wrong. Missing words, bad punctuation, sentences that didn’t even make since. I should retire.
Working from home is great and I’m glad for you, pj. :banana:
I had a guy working for me, however, who “worked” from home. I had to end that charade. :jason:
I watched several episodes of Newsroom and liked it, too. I sometimes play Netflix shows on ze iPad while working ….for background entertainment.
:cake: :40:
Thankfully, I don’t see much MoDo these days but occasionally, they drag me back in.
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Once again, pure unmitigated bullshit from Maureen Dowd!
One of our most misogynistic writers, someone who has spent decades trashing every woman in public life, and disparaging any Democrat that she feels is too effeminate, is now parroting GOP talking points about the first African-American President’s so-called white men only club.
When Obama floated Susan Rice as Secretary of State, Dowd reported petty criticisms that “some democrats” were saying about her, now she uses the same impeccable sources to tell us how “some women” in the Obama administration say that the President never empowers women. The two women who Obama appointed to the Supreme Court might disagree with this, as would the outgoing Secretary of State, but the fact that Obama appointed a female Secretary of State in his first administration, and wanted to appoint a black female Secretary of State in his second administration, is irrelevant to Dowd’s thesis that Obama never appoints women to positions of power in his administration. The Lily Ledbetter Act is also not a part of this column, but that’s because it’s actual policy that affects actual people who live outside the DC beltway so it is of no interest to Maureen Dowd.
Just for fun, let’s take a dip into the Dowd archives for just one classic example of Maureen’s enlightened attitude towards working women. This is what she had to say in 2004 about Howard Dean’s wife, Dr. Judith Steinberg Dean, who committed what to Dowd is the unpardonable sin of preferring to be at her job treating her patients rather than standing placidly next to her husband…
“In worn jeans and old sneakers, the shy and retiring Dr. Judith Steinberg Dean looked like a crunchy Vermont hippie, blithely uncoiffed, unadorned, unstyled and unconcerned about not being at her husband’s side.”
Yes, this great champion of women in positions of power actually wrote that.
If you’re going to take seriously what Maureen Dowd writes about Feminism, I encourage you to also hang on every word of what Lance Armstrong has to say about Good Sportsmanship.
Not going after Dowd the messenger, I’m concerned about the meat of the subject. (Dowd often seems preoccupied with inciting reaction than intellectual consistency and honesty, imho.)
I get down-right pissed off at the lack of promotion of women in this country. Yes, I’m of course delighted with Obama’s first two supreme court picks….but women should comprise at least half of that damn bench, not a third. Yes we have Napolitano at the Homeland Security helm. But I look forward to having a sufficient number of women in government roles that we can debate the issues and not spend our time illuminating the gender gap.
I also think we should pay the First Lady a salary for the work she does.
But I’m a bit riled up after seeing Zero Dark Thirty. (won’t digress about torture…)
A feminist film epic and the real women of the CIA
By Peter Bergen
I agree with that. There are 8 women and 5 ‘minority’ males in the 22 Cabinet or Cabinet level positions right now. I think the bigger problem is that outside of gubment women do not get to ascend the ladders of power and that tends to affect all sectors.
Baseball Hall of Fame has a case of steroid-induced amnesia
Great article (but don’t agree with him on the Paterno thing. Protecting a pedophile for the sake of the game is vastly different than what a player does to himself for the sake of the game.)
BWAA-ha-ha!