{"id":13276,"date":"2014-02-05T06:21:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T12:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13276"},"modified":"2014-02-05T06:21:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T12:21:11","slug":"what-world-am-i-living-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/05\/what-world-am-i-living-in\/","title":{"rendered":"What World Am I Living In?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Certainly not that of the Wall Street Journal<\/em> columnists.<\/p>\n

First, in Bret Stephens’ Dancing in the Nuclear Dark<\/a>, a bit of alt-pop-culture:<\/p>\n

Where do federal government reports go once they’ve been published and (lightly) chewed over by second-tier officials, congressional staffers and think-tank wonks? I picture them being packed into crates and stored in some vast warehouse, like the Ark of the Covenant in the last scene of “Indiana Jones.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The film’s name was Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/em>.<\/p>\n

At the bottom of the page, Fay Vincent offers Ten Tips for New Executives<\/a> which includes:<\/p>\n

Be sure to manage down. Spend time with the lower-level employees in your company and try to be decent to all of them. A polite greeting to the elevator operator<\/b>, a thanks to the mail delivery person and a kind word to the assistants will be appreciated.[Emphasis added]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The elevator operator? Might as well have guided people to be kind to the stenographers and the milkman.<\/p>\n

The New York Observer<\/em> sez<\/a>:<\/p>\n

IT\u2019S WELL KNOWN AMONG THE SMALL WORLD of people who pay attention to such things that the liberal-leaning reporters at The Wall Street Journal resent the conservative-leaning editorial page of The Wall Street Journal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparently, the fact checkers hate them, too.<\/p>\n

(Link to the Observer<\/em> piece courtesy of the Ace of Spades HQ<\/a> sidebar.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Certainly not that of the Wall Street Journal columnists. First, in Bret Stephens’ Dancing in the Nuclear Dark, a bit of alt-pop-culture: Where do federal government reports go once they’ve been published and (lightly) chewed over by second-tier officials, congressional staffers and think-tank wonks? I picture them being packed into crates and stored in some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13277,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13276\/revisions\/13277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}