Google is aiming at the mobile device market. As more and more computing migrates to devices, that will become a more and more important platform.

I regret his birther nonsense and some of his jeremiads against illegal immigrants.

But the fact is, Dobbs has been telling like it in on the way corporations have abandoned their American workforce like no one else.

I work in an industry devastated by outsourcing and the silence from progressives is deafening and in fact, Dobbs' is one of the few who is not in denial about what is happening.

I think his candidacy will be terrible for the Dems, because it will break the racial coalition and pull their covers on economic issues. But they deserve it. Because they've abandoned the American people by being corporate suck ups in this essential area.

I also think the way progressives have treated Dobbs really looks bad. They have trashed him endlessly without paying attention to the whole message.

Progressive politics must include strong action and rhetoric for jobs and workers and the middle class, against outsourcing, against the cheap labor and exploitative conditions that characterize illegal immigration.

This is a country that works when people work. If progressives and Dems don't understand that, they don't deserve power.

Radio has been turned into an audio Wal-mart, thanks to Clear Channel.

That is the problem.

Lack of community based diversity, corporate agendas, corporate mush, corporate conservatism. All made worse because it is one corporation, just one, Clear Channle.

Clear Channel has even bought up the concert halls. It's incredible. And incredibly dull.

Her most famous quote...

"There's no such thing as an American job."

We're broke because we're wimps. We're powerless, & our elites get more predatory and richer every year. Welcome to the world of free trade and globalization.

We're wimps... that's why we can't stand up to China and their manipulation of their currency. Their mercantilism, their export subsidies.

... we also can't stand up to our own elites, who sell us down the river so they can make bucks off of cheap labor in other countries.

It used to be, they sold us goods we borrowed to pay for, since wages have been stagnant for most since the 70's.

But now that jig is up. Now there is no source of job growth in sight.

This is a pretty dreary list of wimpy letters, mostly pablum and excuses for corporate profiteering.

Management doesn't like employees to get embroiled in political or personal disputes. It's bad for productivity and business in general.

If you do this, you are picking an unnecessary fight in a very public way. His personal obnoxiousness will recede and yours will come into prominence. You will be perceived as a person with bad judgment.

If you are out at a bar or other sort of event after work, then it's a different story.

But no, not at work, absolutely not.

Also, you may want to ask a reasonable superior privately if he or she has any suggestions as to how you should deal with the loud opinions of your co-worker. This may induce management to nudge this guy to shut up.

Amazingly useless article.

I am usually a Lind fan.

If you are going to preach to us about the end of jobs, give some solutions. E.g. unions AND confronting the Chinese with their currency peg AND re-thinking globalization AND job sharing, among others.

...but this is the dumbest Broadsheet I have ever read. Next time: think it through.

We don't have to go bankrupt and die just so we can keep kissing Chinese mercantile ass.

We really don't have to be wimps about this.

Attack the currency peg. Declare that the Chinese are currency manipulators. Change the terms of trade.

The alternative is passively watching as all the remaining American manufacturers, falling all over themselves and us as they stream for exits, heading offshore.

I realize I'm late in my comment.

I grew up in a violent neighborhood with racial tension.

After I left there was an incident in which a woman was violently raped by a mob, with racial animosities expressed, and she was severely injured.

She slowly recovered. Her husband wrote a book about the experience. I read the reviews of his book and I have never read such hostile, contemptuous, freaked out reviews. The book was treated with a combo of sex aversion, hysteria, disgust, and panic. This is just to say, I think there is a reality basis to your fear of talking about this. I'm not sure what it is. I think the reality of sexual assault, what it means and what its impacts are, on men as well as women, is still the subject of intense denial, really a mental block.

BUT that denial is mostly felt by men, because many more women than men have a reality based understanding of sexualized terror and violence.

I DO think you are safe talking about this - with a sane, competent, woman therapist. Be careful with any male therapists. I suggest giving them a copy of your letter to Cary and just asking them what they think. You should know right away if they can handle this material or not.