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Sorry! Here we go... What Michael Flynn’s Plea Deal Means Eleven legal experts weigh in. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/01/what-michael-flynns-plea-deal-means-215995?lo=ap_d1

This current version of the forum software is fucked up beyond all belief. My simple attempts to edit the above mispost were not responded to by the sw. A pattern over many days now. Can we just revert to the previous rev?

This python seems to be snaking its way toward the Orange One... What Michael Flynn’s Plea Deal Means Eleven legal experts weigh in. By POLITICO MAGAZINE December 01, 2017

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Have a good time! Orange Thai Beef Skewers Meat on a stick - what could be better? A bright and fresh marinade makes this ordinary flank steak ... https://ourbestbites.com/2009/05/orange-thai-beef-skewers/

About the only human effluent without discernible erotic interest.

Very bizarre question. kjun and I have had a public bitch or two with each other here before, but his bona fides has never been in question: he is one of the longest-standing posters on hooboy's ['daddy's ] forum, and his posts there speak for themselves. He is a very independent and at times very irritating soul; but then me too [I suppose, and indeed hope]. I respect and value his authenticity and commitment to truth, as he sees it, an awful lot.

Unless they specifically ask.

Jim Nabors died...sigh.

This piece is, just tangentially, also pretty good... https://www.inc.com/larry-kim/these-24-productivity-tips-will-help-you-start-off-2018-right.html?cid=mustread2

Here y'are...I think!... http://www.boytoy.com/forums/topic/13209-joke-for-the-day-add-more-if-you-want/

Pretty insightful look into how Amazon makes decisions... 3 lessons we can learn from Jeff Bezos and Amazon about making incredibly smart decisions http://www.businessinsider.com/3-lessons-we-can-learn-from-jeff-bezos-about-making-decisions-2017-11

Yeah. Those guys deserve to be shot in the head, just to get the stupidity out of the gene pool. Doing business anywhere in East Asia (really anywhere, for that matter) requires some learning of local custom, and how to respect and follow it.

My papa passed of an unexpected massive coronary in 1968, when he was 41, my mama 39, and I was 8. The random stream of friends, dozens of them, coming through the house, intensely for the first few days, and then more randomly for the next days and weeks -- and months -- and sharing their free, random thoughts about what my papa had meant to them in their own lives, were the most meaningful threads of support that my mama and I could have ever imagined receiving. All that supported us immensely through what would have been an otherwise emotionally and existentially insupportable time. All of us who knew Lurker are, I daresay, trying to process the same emotions now. Your comment is insensitive beyond any comprehension. This weird shit that you posted here -- telling us, who knew and, absolutely in a sense, loved Lurker, how we are and are not supposed to post our thoughts -- is not, to me, comprehensible. It seems in fact a little bit psychopathic.

Just saw this. Variety usually gets it right. Variety magazine has the Matt Lauer sexual harassment details and they are bad—really, really bad “The Today Show” abruptly announced that Matt Lauer had been fired for “inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace.” Variety magazine had been working on a story about Matt Lauer’s behavior for months, behavior which was apparently known by many at NBC for more than a decade. Here are some of the rage-inducing details: As the co-host of NBC’s “Today,” Matt Lauer once gave a colleague a sex toy as a present. It included an explicit note about how he wanted to use it on her, which left her mortified. On another day, he summoned a different female employee to his office, and then dropped his pants, showing her his penis. After the employee declined to do anything, visibly shaken, he reprimanded her for not engaging in a sexual act. He used his position and clout at NBC to prey on women looking to grow their own careers, taking advantage of them while traveling for work. And according to the sources who spoke with Vanity, NBC management protected and enabled Lauer at all costs. He even had a special button installed on his desk: Lauer, who was paranoid about being followed by tabloid reporters, grew more emboldened at 30 Rockefeller Center as his profile rose following Katie Couric’s departure from “Today” in 2006. His office was in a secluded space, and he had a button under his desk that allowed him to lock his door from the inside without getting up. This afforded him the assurance of privacy. It allowed him to welcome female employees and initiate inappropriate contact while knowing nobody could walk in on him, according to two women who were sexually harassed by Lauer. He targeted young female employees traveling with him for work, because of course he did: According to sources, the sexual harassment extended to when Lauer traveled on assignment for NBC. Several employees recall how he paid intense attention to a young woman on his staff that he found attractive, focusing intently on her career ambitions. And he asked the same producer to his hotel room to deliver him a pillow, according to sources with knowledge of the interaction. This was part of a pattern. According to multiple accounts, independently corroborated by Variety, Lauer would invite women employed by NBC late at night to his hotel room while covering the Olympics in various cities over the years. He later told colleagues how his wife had accompanied him to the London Olympics because she didn’t trust him to travel alone. He’ll have plenty of free time to spend with his wife now. If she isn’t already meeting with divorce attorneys. Who’s next? https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/29/1719596/-Variety-magazine-has-the-Matt-Lauer-sexual-harassment-details-and-they-are-bad-really-really-bad

There certainly is a danger that this -- long-needed and long-overdue, absolutely -- movement to at last take women's professional-abuse accusations seriously is about to spiral up into the witch hunt that we descendants of Salem (speaking figuratively) have long been prey to.

I agree!

Bet it was some harassment of the Key Grip.

If that's one's 1966-era taste...

As if that jacket weren't cause enough... ...this revolution in taking women seriously is maybe the best thing since the Civil Rights Act of 1965. And many leap-forward progresses since, like the MA state supreme court ruling in 1986 that Marriage Inequality is Injust and Stupid! Goodbye & good riddance, Matt.

He is very cute!

When can you be here?

Collaboration Kills Creativity, According to Science It's impossible to think "out of the box" when you're stuck inside a box with a bunch of other people. By Geoffrey James The notion that collaboration makes people more creative has become conventional wisdom in the business world. Here's a typical example: Collaboration has recently emerged as the defining characteristic of creativity and growth in nearly all sectors and industries. The singular genius who works alone is a myth of yesterday. Despite this kind of corporate-speak truthiness, there is substantial scientific evidence that collaboration, rather than sparking creativity, results in group-think and mediocrity. What does result in creativity? Simple: solitude. According to a study recently published in the Elselvier journal ScienceDirect.com, the character traits of "shyness, avoidance, [and] unsociability," while generally seen as undesirable, are positively associated with creativity. Furthermore, intelligent people are happier when they have less social interaction, even with their friends, according to a national survey of 15,000 respondents aged 18 to 28 and quoted in the Washington Post: The more social interactions with close friends a person has, the greater their self-reported happiness. But there was one big exception. For more intelligent people, these correlations were diminished or even reversed. More intelligent individuals were actually less satisfied with life if they socialized with their friends more frequently. [Emphasis mine] In other words, far from being a "myth of yesterday," the "singular genius who works alone" is much more likely to be creative than the person who seeks interaction and "collaboration." Forcing creative people to "collaborate" simply blunts their creativity. According to an article in the Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, there are two ways in which solitude can facilitate creativity--first, by stimulating imaginative involvement in multiple realities and, second, by 'trying on' alternative identities, leading, perhaps, to self-transformation. ... By separating us from our usual social and physical environments, solitude can remove those people and objects that define and confirm our identities. The people we see and the places we frequent reinforce our identities as students, parents, police officers, or whomever. ... By extracting us from our customary social and physical contexts (or at least altering our experience of them), solitude facilitates self-examination, reconceptualization of the self, and coming to terms with change. Put another way, being around other people keeps creative people from thinking new thoughts. Indeed, there are few experiences more mind-numbing for a creative person than being forced to interact with dullards on a daily basis. Even if your office is full of geniuses, they'll be less creative en masse than if they can work and think alone. In short, it's difficult and maybe even impossible to "think out of the box" when you're literally inside a box (i.e., an open-plan office) that's full of other people. https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/collaboration-kills-creativity-according-to-science.html?cid=mustread3