Political correctness doesn’t have the best reputation.  It’s gotten old, has led to ridiculous policies in all sorts of places, and has had a chilling effect on being able to speak your mind according to free speech advocates. 

I’m not an economist. I’m not running for anything. I’ve never been on Wall Street. But I’ve been thinking again.
Thinking about the economy. Thinking about banks and investment banks. Thinking about CEOs. Thinking about politicians. Thinking about the bailout, now called a rescue plan. Thinking about how this relates to employment.

It seems to me that we’re suffering from a dearth of leadership almost everywhere we turn: government, business, law.  Without leadership, we’re not going anywhere.

Here’s the Corporate BS for September 21-27:
September 21–miscommunication:  A clever way to conceal one’s own failure to communicate something by appearing not to blame the addressee, e.g., “Oh, we must have had a miscommunication”; a classic passive-aggressive move; a word for not getting what you want from somebody, e.g., “I think we’re having a miscommunication” [...]

One thing to keep an eye on during the coming year is what your state legislature is doing with gun legislation introduced as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s relatively recent Heller decision.  It’s likely that there will be a passel of proposals designed to give gun owners more discretion as to where they [...]

You may be surprised to find Billy Bragg’s labor anthem on this blog, but you should know what they’re singing on the other side of the street.

The tragic collision between a commuter train and a freight train in Los Angeles (killing 25 people) has led California’s rail safety regulators to temporarily ban train operators from using cellphones on duty.  It’s been widely reported that the engineer of the commuter train, one of the dead, had been sending text messages shortly before the [...]

Our cartoon this week was about a version of offboarding, the euphemism for firing employees.  Take a look at this YouTube clip for another, even more humiliating version of offboarding.

We all know that racial inequality exists in all of life’s compartments, including the workplace.  To most of us, ”racial inequality” means whites having unfair advantages over African-Americans.  The Civil Rights Act was passed to correct this inequality, and it has made a difference.  Race discrimination still exists–as traditionally defined–but the nomination of Barack Obama for President is evidence [...]