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more about #financialcrisis rah29: Boo, I'll be on a 12 hour plane trip for commenter crappy hour and for Megan's last day! Sadface. more » J.D.Regent: Whoa, I think that commenter-involved Crappy Hour might be a little too complex for me. Although it would satisfy a long held fantasy that when Megan... more » drivebyillusion: tomorrow's final Crappy Hour??? more » morninggloria: A mortgage holiday? So, let me get this straight. To... save... the economy, let's eliminate a major source of revenue for banks, which we have just... more » Little Green Frog (Wise Latina): OK, before I read it: BWWWWAAAHHH!!! End of an era. Crappy Hour is my morning news show. Megan, may good things come to you in the future wherever yo... more » morninggloria: I have the same problem with the US Postal Service not recognizing that I'm a person, despite the fact that I've had the same address for three years. more » NefariousNewt: Now that there's "Cash Fro Clunkers," no one cares about AIG, Moe. more » NefariousNewt: Do you know the secret to why people think Limbaugh is smart? Because at least 4 times an hour, he reminds his listeners how smart they are. Even as h... more » NefariousNewt: It's true -- why work on comedy and satire, when fringe conservatives will hand it to you on a silver platter? more » linnyt is a walking cliché: I work in a field where most of my bosses have been women. Usually they are ok. My current boss is an architect which is a field of a lot of men. I t... more » Grim Reaper of the Forest: I've had passive-aggressive female and male bosses, gruff female bosses, kind male bosses, so it is more complicated than gender. However, I will con... more » Paul.B.Dodd: My graduate school adviser was female. She is my gold standard and my benchmark for mentoring. She was also a great boss. At least in academia, mos... more » Yahtzii: Wait, I thought we went over this two threads ago. Gender stereotyping is unhelpful. Men and women may carry certain characteristics of their gender, ... more » colormeroutine: I have had an equal number of problems with male and female bosses. An equal number of the same types of problems, at that more » Mary McCarthyite: Smith is making too much of a generalization here. Sure, she may have had better experenices with women, but I think every person makes that kind of s... more » wordinedgewise: The problem here, as always, is with generalizations. The idea that you can assume ANY characteristic of a person based on their gender is patently ab... more » Steve Holt's Mother Part Deux: I don't like Rachael Maddow's show. I used to listen to Air America quite a bit when it came out, and whenever she came on for promo's, I would shut t... more » meritxell: an erotic life: Capital punishment for white-collar criminals... who's with me? more » drunken marmot: A good explanation. However, remember when we were all screaming for the bailout a few months ago and it was rushed through Congress without any real ... more » curiousk: god, you know, i just had my heart smashed into a million pieces, and i've spent the last month in a shame and grief spiral the size of texas, but all... more » -
#crappyhour
Bill's Business Connections, Right-Wing Wackos Still Dominating The Day
Almost two years ago, former staffer Moe Tkacik (now at True/Slant and Clusterstock) created Crappy Hour, in which participants opined on everything from Britney, to baseball, the Clintons, and oral sex. Some things have changed, but many stayed the same. More » -
#theelleword
Do Women Make Better Bosses — And Whistleblowers?
Elle publisher Carol Smith tells the Times why women make better bosses — and explodes a bunch of gender stereotypes in the process. But is she also creating new ones?
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#clips
Rachel Maddow Explains Why We Are All Screwed
Rachel Maddow appeared on David Letterman's show last night and, when asked to explain what exactly is fucked up about our economy, the housing crisis, and the AIG bonuses, did so in under 5 minutes. More » -
#jezenomics
Satirist Proves Conservatives, Feminists Have Senses Of Humor
Newton Emerson is a known satirist and a touch conservative and, as I know too well, sometimes satire flies over people's heads. That probably explains Louise Livesey's rant about Emerson's article on The F Word. More » -
#modelslips
Model Rates Falling As Everything In Fashion Goes Half Price
I was talking with some non-fashion people recently when one asked, "So. This 'Financial Crisis.' Does it affect anyone? Really?" Then I thought how slow the major cities have been since, oh, precisely last September. More » -
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#crappyhour
It's Election Day, So Go Vote Already
Election Day marks the end of this interminable campaign, though not the issues that drive it or, one hopes, the electorate's interest in politics. To help me mark the time, former Jezebel Moe Tkacik takes a break from running up and down the East Coast and hobnobbing with the intellectual elites and a Congressman or two to hit up the elections, the financial crisis, the housing crisis and the great Ponzi scheme that was our financial system. Oh, yeah, and that elections thing. More »
