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Daily Links for December 22nd through December 31st

December 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Fimoculous.com - misc - 30 Most Notable Blogs of 2008 - Maybe half of the blogs listed below are new, and the other half deserve attention for having reinvented the medium in some way. Consensus is an impossible task in a world this diverse, but that shouldn't stop us from pointing out excellence when we see it. So here they are, the most notable blogs of the past year[.]
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Hero Worship.

July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

A couple of semesters ago, I read a Businessweek article on Home Depot then-CEO Bob Nardelli’s plan to turn around Home Depot. BW glowingly reported on Nardelli’s personnel changes and differing style, with his strong preference for hiring former-military persons in key rolls. Anecdotally speaking, a masters program classmate who was also a Naval Academy graduate mentioned that Home Depot had indeed made a push for hiring employees who were formerly Officer Grade to run their stores, casting the opportunity as entrepreneurial. Businessweek gave several hints as to what was coming in their description of Nardelli’s style:

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Buchanan on Obama and Race

March 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

A friend had pointed me to a Pat Buchanan screed entitled “A Brief for Whitey”, where Buchanan speaks from his inner bigot.

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I’ll ignore Buchanan’s opening and focus on his “convictions, grievances, and demands” of the Silent Majority [note, this is quite the flexible metaphor for Buchanan, especially since he wrote it]:

First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.

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