The Jobs Aren’t Coming Back

The Article: The Jobs Are Never Coming Back in Thought Infection.

The Text: I just watched former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm’s TED Talk. She provides some nice insight as to what it is really like as a politician trying to grapple with the new realities of the modern world; trying to save jobs in America that just don’t make sense economically any more. Granholm also raises the need to address global climate change as an enigma on equal footing with economic issues. What makes her talk interesting is she sees that a solution to the climate change problem could also be a solution to economic woes, a surprising position given the normal myopia of politicians when it comes to linking environment with economy.

While I like the general slant of Granholm’s view, in particular with respect to proposing a feasible means of stimulating the move to green energy through competitive incentivization programs, I have to disagree that even a major shift to green energy in America is somehow going to bring back “good jobs”.

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Jim Carrey On FOX News

It’s a self-evident truth that Jim Carrey’s sketch on the NRA’s Charlton Heston is hilarious. Not one to understand humor–even their own 24-hour reel of it–FOX News responded in a characteristically vitriolic manner. And as you can see above, so did Carrey.

What’s Holding Women Back?

The Article: Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Explains What’s Holding Women Back in NPR.

The Text: Of all the posters plastered around Facebook’s Silicon Valley headquarters — “Move Fast and Break Things,” “Done Is Better Than Perfect” and “Fail Harder” — Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg has a favorite: “What Would You Do If You Weren’t Afraid?”

“[It’s] something that I think is really important and I think very motivating,” Sandberg tells NPR’s Renee Montagne. ” … I wrote in my book, what I would do if I wasn’t afraid is, I would speak out more on behalf of women.”

That book — Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead — is something of a feminist call to arms. In it, Sandberg, a 43-year-old former Google executive with two Harvard degrees, is calling on other women, as she puts it, to “lean in” and embrace success. And it has struck a chord. In the weeks leading up to the book’s publication on Monday, Sandberg, who has not been known to court controversy in the past, has been the subject of critical op-eds and cranky commentaries.

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The Daily Gun

“We don’t need the anti-soda billionaire elitist’s reckless background checks, we need more guns.”

Bill Moyers Quotes On Democracy, Politics And More

Bill Moyers has seen it all. Serving as White House press secretary for the Johnson administration and going on to become one of the preeminent faces of public television, Bill Moyers has decades worth of memorable and noteworthy material on everything media and politics. And so we present the best Bill Moyers quotes on democracy, politics, and a whole lot more:

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