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I’ve worked in professionally for a large discount retailer in the systems, networking, security, and programming arenas for the last 20+ years, much of it in leadership or management roles. My resume is here. More versions of it as well as more information in general, can be found here.

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Oh the horror of it…

Is nothing sacred anymore?:

NYC’s Tavern on the Green files for Chapter 11

Actually I have fond memories of visiting this with my “big sister” (14 years my senior) when I was a little tike. We didn’t eat there, but somehow I understood I was privileged enough to be walking on the holy ground [...]

“Order of The Shrill”?

Hmmm… I’m wondering. I thought Brad Delong always called it  just “ShrillBlog” and then sometime after I posted a comment here about how Greenwald should be inducted in the “Order of The Shrill”, this and this appeared with “Order of The Shrill” in them.

So, was it my idea? I should be so lucky – [...]

Conservative “jokes”

Hey, I’m all for a, “What do you call 1,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start!” kind of joke, but have you ever noticed that conservative jokes always have a tendency to be a little, well, violent? I received this recent jem from a friend:

A driver is stuck in a [...]

Time To Go “Sextuple” Meta on Health Care

Brad DeLong goes Quintuple meta on Robert Waldmann’s quadrupal meta on the triple meta of Matthew Yglesias:

Robert Waldmann goes quadruple meta on the triple meta Matthew Yglesias:

Robert’s Stochastic thoughts: Quadruple meta: Matt Yglesias goes triple meta in his blog post “Stay First-Order on Health Care.” writing

It’s difficult, of course, to critique the [...]