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Day August 30, 2009

End of year reviews and the grading system

This would be ideal:

In my ideal management world, a review is simply a documentation of well-known facts, your performance over the year. It also contains constructive advice and insight regarding how your boss believes you can improve on that performance. My dream is that you already know all of this information because you’ve been getting year-round feedback from your boss.

Gruber vs. Lyons

A great response from Gruber to Dan “Fake Steve” Lyons post “Dear Gruber: You’ve Been Pwned”:

I say, “Look, don’t sweat it, Dan. You’re writing for Newsweek, the premiere magazine Americans turn to for week-old news when they’re sold out of Time. That’s what counts.”

Go read the whole thing, it’s worth it.

Chris Wallace, A Teenage Girl Interviewing The Jonas Brothers

The Daily Dish discussing Chris Wallace’s “interview” with former Vice-President Dick “torture is legal under my laws” Cheney:

When future historians ask how the United States came not only to practice torture but to celebrate it and treat torturers as heroes, a special place in hell among the journalists who embraced and justified it should be reserved for Chris Wallace.