Never underestimate the power of managers. They need someone to manage, after all. Even if it's managing someone doing nothing. (Justifies the budget, you know.) I once temped at a Major University where everyone had to have an assistant (me, for instance), even if they didn't need one. It came with the job, like a chair or phone or stapler. I met a counterpart on the bus who told me the exact same story, albeit she worked in another department.

To the LW, while you are updating your resume and looking for a new job, you might want to learn some HTML or Flash animation or any such thing that you might be interested in.

Has anyone told me yet that I just don't "get" Paglia?

I'm also wondering, with the new registration policy, if this has cut down on the Freeper hordes with the Paglia alert on their computer from coming to the letters and writing, "You know, if only you liberals would listen to a sensible liberal like Camille Paglia then maybe I could support some of you liberls once in a while etc etc yadda yadda yadda..."

Times a wasting!

And I agree with an earlier posting that there should be a best take-down award. Perhaps a top-ten?

10:45 AM posting (is that PST?) that Drudge has just linked to this article. Let's see what happens vis a vis the registration policy, shall we?

That's why you have to put ice in it!

Saw him give a talk somewhere in Cambridge with his son Mark, talking about Mark's book dealing with his mental illness. Funny, kind, and easy.

Something from a long ago Salon article to the effect that Vonnegut's universe was poignant, pointless and where kindness is the only virtue.

I'm sure you can see what idiocy has just broken out on this thread. It would help ever so lightly to alleviate the headache I feel coming on.

And good luck Ms. Valenti! It's all flip-flops and wonder-bras here with the best and brightest of our nation's young women.

I grew up in the 70s, and sort of expected women to at least act like they were equal, or wanted to be. And like many men, I eventually got turned off by the "all men suck all the time" meme. Now I find myself in my 40s in practically a seller's market because, hey! I'm not an asshole! Or at least not a great big one.

I work in IT. The women in my department have no trouble figuring out how to fix things, how to make things work. But out there in the mostly white, college-educated, middle-to-upper middle-class user community? Why those pretty little things with the haircuts and the shoes and the bags just couldn't possibly figure out how to plug in their keyboard. Much less carry a computer all the way across the room to another desk. Heavens no! They'd get the vapors, I swear.

Just this lunchtime I saw a young woman literally standing in front of the door, waiting for her male friend to open it for her.

You've got a long way to go, and a long row to how. And 100 shades of lip gloss.

You're just jealous. All you haters hatin' on the Red Sox. Jealous! We've got the greatest, bestest, smartest, baseball savviest, most passionate, knowledgeable, pull-children-from-the-burning-building, highest-ticket-price-paying, most awesome fans in the universe. We've got our own Nation and the second highest payroll in baseball. We've got better hotdogs and better tarps. We've got a monster for a wall and a Monster on the mound. We've got Big Papi and you don't. Your girlfriend thinks Theo Epstein is hot. People write books about the Red Sox. We'll be on national TV more than your team. Schilling has a blog and most of your players can't even spell. We've traded or lost more Hall of Famers than your players can even count. We've got cute chicks in pink Red Sox hates dirty rockers in black Red Sox hats.

Plus we've got the Patriots.

And we still might end up in third place!

Jealous, jealous, you're just jealous!

King, thought I'd help you out with the hit count.

Bonds has already admitted to using steroids, the cream and the clear, to be exact. What he hasn't admitted to is "knowingly" using steroids. He thought it was, like, flax-seed oil or something.

Do you think that George W. Bush and Co. "knowingly" lied about WMD? We live in such a "knowing" era these days, don't we?