Under the heading of “politicians are funny, some funnier than others and some not in a ‘ha-ha’ funny kind of way,” our girl Sara responds to John Kerry’s Sanford/Palin joke.
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The WSJ has an interesting post up about the Capping Trade legislation being pushed through Congress. The tide seems to be shifting:
The collapse of the “consensus” has been driven by reality. The inconvenient truth is that the earth’s temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing concentrations of C02. Peer-reviewed research has debunked doomsday scenarios about the polar ice caps, hurricanes, malaria, extinctions, rising oceans. A global financial crisis has politicians taking a harder look at the science that would require them to hamstring their economies to rein in carbon.
Credit for Australia’s own era of renewed enlightenment goes to Dr. Ian Plimer, a well-known Australian geologist. Earlier this year he published “Heaven and Earth,” a damning critique of the “evidence” underpinning man-made global warming. The book is already in its fifth printing. So compelling is it that Paul Sheehan, a noted Australian columnist — and ardent global warming believer — in April humbly pronounced it “an evidence-based attack on conformity and orthodoxy, including my own, and a reminder to respect informed dissent and beware of ideology subverting evidence.”
If the pols are going to get on with hamstringing the economy and placing US productivity at a competitive disadvantage for arguable scientific reasons, they’d better hurry up.
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Diversity musings – I was going to put up a separate post on this, but am simply to worn out over it. I’ve been around the block long enough to know when a train has left the station. But anyway.
Professor Shawn Bediako, professor of English at the academic powerhouse University of Maryland, Baltimore Campus responds to USNA Professor Bruce Fleming’s Annapolis Capital op-ed. In short, he says that “you owe us this,” and whatever impact differential applicant scoring has on officer corps quality is just tough. Suck it up:
If we assume that 35 percent of next fall’s Naval Academy class is comprised of seats that should have gone to qualified, deserving whites, then that is simply the price we all have to pay in order to move toward an egalitarian society where people will eventually be judged by their merits – and not by the privileges they have received based on the color of their skin.
I hope that, in due course. Professor Bediako will inform us when we have moved sufficiently towards the egalitarian social ideal that we can, in to paraphrase that noted civil rights obstructionist Martin Luther King, judge people by the content of their characters rather than the accidents of their birth.
Still, the Navy’s effort seem to be bearing fruit, as the service has been named one of the top 20 government agencies to work for by career publications Minority Engineer and Woman Engineer. So we’ve got that going four us.
Which is nice.
Because diversity makes us stronger. Except, you know: Where it doesn’t.
Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone, is very nervous about the release of his new work. Understandably so. His five-year study shows that immigration and ethnic diversity have a devastating impact on social capital, the fabric of associations, trust and neighborliness that create and sustain communities. In the short to medium range, that is, because in the long run, new communities and new ties are formed, Putnam says. What he fears – correctly – is that his work on the surprisingly negative impact of diversity will become part of the immigration debate.
His study found that immigration and diversity not only reduce social capital between ethnic groups, but also within the groups. Trust, even of one’s own race, is lower, altruism and community cooperation rarer, friends fewer. The problem is not ethnic conflict or worse racial relations, but withdrawal and isolation. Putnam writes: “In colloquial language, people living in ethnically diverse settings appear to ‘hunker down,’ – that is, to pull in like a turtle…”
Diversity does not produce “bad race relations,” he says. Rather, people in diverse communities tend “to withdraw even from close friends, to expect the worst from their community and its leaders, to volunteer less, give less to charity and work on community projects less often, to register to vote less, to agitate for social reform more, but have less faith that they can actually make a difference, and to huddle unhappily in front of the television.” Putnam adds a crushing footnote: his findings “may underestimate the real effect of diversity on social withdrawal.”
Well, we can all afford to be patient. Wait for the long run, and its likely benefits.
In the meantime, please embrace the orthodoxy.
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File this one under, “kinda creepy no matter what you attribute it to,” but an 11-year old boy claims to have settled things with man he was 65 years ago.
Reincarnation does not happen to fit in with my own world view, but my recommendation to future generations is avoid coming back as Lex if you can at all manage it.
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So, with the window closing on a health reimbursement arrangement sponsored by his employer, your host took the plunge and got his eyes looked at last week, with the intent of purchasing for his use a pair of Scheyden spectacles. They are ret pricey, but a benefit is a benefit until it’s gone, and then it’s just another lost opportunity to stimulate the economy. And, having lost the ability to focus on things close to hand – while retaining 20/17 eyesight at a distance – I thought it’d be nifty to have flip up shades that’d allow me to see without squinting on a sunny day of flying, and retain the option to read checklists and approach plates and so on in a shaded cockpit. Because flying an airplane while fumbling around between sunglasses and reading glasses is not more than I can bear, but rather more than I’d like to.
So, down to the local, where they’ve got it down to a science. The frames are thus and such, the inspection a little more. Coatings and cuttings and the bill became breathtaking. Especially when you consider that all I really needed was reading glasses, with a sunshade.
I got neither, since the only solution the local offered were these magnetic clip-ons that I could see causing a problem in the plane. Playing the fool among the rudder pedals, or throttle quadrant or some such. Even if they hadn’t been polarized – which they were – and so unsuitable for duties involving actual control of aircraft, at least to the FAA.
An attractive professional woman of a certain age nevertheless steered me through the process, knocking down nascent objections as they arose, ensuring me with authentic-sounding “oohs,” that one particular frame was exactly right for my face and also matched my skin coloring. I swallowed it hook, line and sinker of course.
I’m only a man, after all.
She talked me into “progressive” glasses, softly emphasizing the phrase “progressive” over and over again, and singing the merits of eyeglasses that will help me read things close at hand, focus clearly on things in the intermediate distance and view with eagle-like clarity things at range. “Progressive,” she would breathe to me, as though it was some kind of incantation that would lead me to a higher spiritual plane.
Picked ‘em up yesterday, she fitted them to my face with every semblance of admiration, explained how the “progressive” thing works and how it would take me time to get used to them. You look through the top of the lens to see at a distance, the middle for the intermediate and the very lowest bit for up-close reading. You have to turn your head to see things clearly rather than your eyes. Everything on the border of your peripheral vision is hazy, swimming out of focus in a way I found slightly nauseating. When I read with them, I’m forced to tilt my chin in the air, taking on, I suspect, a rather pedantic air of superiority. I lower my head like a pugilist to see things on the horizon. Only in the middle distance, where the consequences are non-immediate can I relax.
I wore them for the better part of four hours yesterday, and they sit on the desk beside me now, unused, unloved and in fact cordially despised. Suitable for niche use such as driving to work and checking your watch, but not at all the thing for serious work. They cost a great deal of other people’s money, force you look at the world in a restricted way and perform much more poorly than I had been led to believe.
Probably because they’re progressive.
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Well, that’s it for now. More later, maybe. Scribble, scribble and that.
Holy Shine-ola Batman. This reads like an Air Force mission briefing. We’ve covered everything from idiotic politicians (right Batman, that would be Kerry) to global warming caused by the diversity crowd pontificating about its merits and producing waaaay too much hot air which immediately connects us to Australia thence to reincarnation (do the Aborigines believe in that too?) to a old guy being manipulated by a younger “attractive” (read damn, I wish I was 25 and single again”). Maybe in another life you’ll be progressive enough to wear those glasses. “progressive” not manly. Enjoy the weekend. Keep the blue water outta the brown shoes.
They’re eyeglasses, Lex, not political at all. Progresives are good, have used them for years and wouldn’t be without them now… having in fact purchased a couple of repeat pair, despite 20/10 abilities.
Yes, I too fell prey to an attractive young thing of a certain age, one day long ago and… I’m now happy that I did. Wear them, you’ll like them; riding a desk isn’t something you’d ascribe to for even yourself.
Adaptability… it’s all about adaptability!
Lex, I have been wearing progressives for years and like them. I even play golf with them. Mine are just the opposite of yours in that I need help with these weak NFO eyes seeing things at a distance but no correction at the bottom so I can see the large numbers I put on my golf score cards.
Being unable to focus close up comes with age so you’ll have to live with it. Back in the day, they used to attach the front page of the Virginia Pilot above one urinal and the front page of the sports section above another in one of the heads at CINCLANT. As time progressed I found it increasingly difficult to both “do my business” and read the news at the same time. The trick was to be able to lean my head back several feet while keeping the waist close enough to avoid missing the target. I finally realized that there were only two possible fixes to the problem: Get reading glasses or somehow acquire a longer, er, johnson.
Ah, yes, Lex … Those “progressive” glasses which are supposed to be so great. Now I have quite severe nearsightedness, and my opthalmologist tried to talk me into “progressive” lenses quite a few years ago. Turned him down after a pair of bifocals I had recently purchased caused me to misjudge a step and fall down, quite painfully but not with lasting harm. Told him then that I would stick to my ‘house glasses,’ an older prescription, which allow me quite sharp and undistorted vision from zero to fifty feet [the length of our house] and my driving/outdoor glasses, which give me much better distance vision at the sacrifice of clear close-up vision from zero to 7 feet.
That’s a myopic person’s solution, and you’re obviously a perfect ‘perfect vision’ person whose sight is getting a little crankier with age. But those progressive lenses can be dangerous when precise vision is required. Maybe you should stick with slightly magnifying lenses which don’t distort your distance perception for your everyday work and existence, and just use the others for driving or motor-biking. My driving glasses are tinted, since [hello] I use them outside to drive and walk. Of course, I no longer drive at night, so I don’t have my driving vision impaired. But you could use the progressive glasses you already have for that.
Anyway, take some advice from your “old” friend. The docs don’t always know what they’re talking about. We civilians have learned to make our own judgments.
Marianne
With a line, without a line, fuzzy lines, been there, done that. I finally got a pair of WalMart reading glasses, +1.50s I think in the half-glasses style. I move them up and down my nose to suit the application. With them on I can read the speedometer on my Harley and then just raise my eyeballs a bit and read the street signs down the road. And, best of all in this “stimulate-the-economy” era they are cheap! They come 4 to a pack so you can leave them around the house and car. Hey, what’s not to like?
Yeah, I know. They ain’t cool.
I’m with Marianne on this. My last venture into new specs (been wearing them for distance since age 10) brought out the word “progressive”. I refused – losing my peripheral vision isn’t something I’m interested in. I have a hard enough time adjusting to a new distance prescription – nausea and more – the thought of learning from scratch how to look thru the glasses was more than I could endure.
So far my arms are still long enough for me to read easily.
I have to say I have a weakness for Sunglasses and Watches. I was constantly spending 200-400 on the latest sunglasses only to scratch them up sit on them or misplace them.
Then I bought a pair of Costa Del Mar. I have dropped them repeatedly, tossed the keys onto the counter right into the lenses and generally tortured them for the past 4 years. The Gold leaf on the C is gone but other than that the lenses are still perfectly clear and scratch free.
I vote for the Scheyden. I know it is a little late, but when you have the right tool for the job it makes the job that much easier.
Ah – watches. Yes a definite weakness for me as well. With prescription sunglasses, I have to pick one I really love and stick with it for a few years. Just too darn expensive to have more than one pair at a time!
Well,
I bought several sets of dollar-store reading glasses too. Have one set in my shirt pocket, another on my night stand, another set in my knapsack, etc. They cost something like $3.00 a pair, and work great. You can get them in various colours, as well, to accessorize whatever the heck you are wearing, if that floats your boat. I just got 4 pair in silver, and one pair in black, the latter for formal wear…
Have a wonderful weekend, all.
Classic Friday Musings! Loved it, especially the last line.
As far as the glasses, sorry to hear you’re having problems. It does take time to get used to the progressive lenses, but I think they’re worth it. Then again… I’ve had bifocals since I was 11–they were lifesavers for me. It sounds like they might not be quite the right shape/size that is appropriate for you and your needs (a full-service opthomologist specializing in sports vision is often more attentive to those kinds of things–I have an incredibly complex prescription and I’ve always gotten the best results from a sports vision specialist. Just something to think about).
I started with the progressives about 2 years ago and like them just fine. Peripheral vision is no big deal because my eyes were not too bad to begin with. It took a while to get used to the right place to look for charts, panel, and distance, but once mastered no biggie, either. Since I both fish and fly, I went with progressive polarized, FAA be damned. I don’t do aerobatics, so the polarization of glare stays pretty much in the correct plane, no pun intended.
Lex,
If you like the progressives at work just try landing a Cessna with them. The bounce is likely to be impressive, as I and others have found out. The higher magnification near the bottom of the lense distorts the distance you “see” as you look down the runway and judge height. After 3 or 4 really bad bounced landings I got rid of the nice, expensive progressive shades and invested in a 10 dollar pair of DeWalt work sunglasses with reading lenses at the bottom (see Amazon) Voila, can read a chart or plate, good shades, darn near unbreakable and reputed to be nearly as good as safety glasses when struck by F.O. Try it.
RAS
Yeah, hover taxiing with them is fun too… I just got a magnifier that fits it a pocket of my kneeboard for IAP’s.
The last cross country I took with a guy from our local USAF sponsored flying club we’re bombing down to Jax in the Lance. I’m flying right seat and got the charts out and looking at approach plate. When i do the approach brief he brings out a magnifying glass to look at the plate! “I don’t like glasses, got ‘em, don’t wear ‘em” he says. Omigosh. Then he adds “the only real problem I have is doing this at night”. Whaaack!! What was the old Grampa Pettibone line? “never again”? Finding a pair of acceptable spectacles doesn’t seem to be a gihugent problem considering the alternatives.
Lex,
“Been there, done that” with the progressives. About 10 yars ago, while still plying my trade in the trusty Boeing, I was talked into the progressives. My experience was so bad, that they were relegated to my flight bag to satisfy the Feds, if necessary,but never to be used in actual flight. They were extremely vertigo inducing as everytime I moved my head, as I am wont to do in the business of scanning the guages on the forward panel, console, and overhead, not to mention swivel-necking outside to avoid the unwanted results of trying to occupy the same few molecules of air that some other hunk of aluminum and flesh might be occupying, everything is skewed way out of proportion. Very distracting from the necessary business at hand.
I too, have had excellent results with the $3.00 reading glasses available from most Walgreen, Wall Mart, etc. Besides, once you start down the slippery slope of deteriorating vision, you may find yourself needing to change prescriptions about every 6 months, it seems. Can be very expensive.
After all, that’s why they paint those great big numbers on the end of the runway.
Hey, I’ve met your wife. I’ll come back as Lex…
Errr…did I just say that out loud??
Sorry.
Hey, I’ve met your wife.
I’m guessing you won’t be doing so again…
I don’t know, I was pretty damned charming. (In fact, I was almost Rich and Powerful…)
I’m almost sure you were. The thing is, it’s been so long since I’ve seen you that I can’t quite trust my memory…
Out by me they’re called “no-line bifocals” and I had to switch to them about age 45. It took a couple of weeks to get used to them – the head and eye motions become automatic after that long. I’m due for a new pair and I’ll be getting them again. Now, when I fly the only thing I’ve got in my hands is a drink and a magazine, so perhaps that’s a different story. They do take a while to get used to, but once I did I liked them fine.
Tried progressives twice, and just could not deal with shifting from scanning with my eyes to scanning with my entire head.
These folks know aviation specs –
http://www.hidalgos.com/
Was able to get polarized lenses (a must for SWO Dogs) here long before the mall shops knew what they were.
For info on less costly options, check here -
http://glassyeyes.blogspot.com/
give the progressives another chance. i’ve worn mine for 30 years. I take them off for computer work (turns out my latest eye exam shows my vision is set up perfectly for staring at the computer), wear them when I need close up work especially teeny tiny type and then when I want a sharp view at distance (bugs me no end to be slightly out of focus when looking at a distant object)
you’ll get used to turning your head to look instead of your eyes
In an earlier life I was VX’s wingman, until he had me offed on a late night trip into Angeles. That’s why he drinks so much. I came back as a Quartermaster as there was some distant memory that told me the AF was not a good place for me to go.
Seriously, my wife has had no-lines for over 10 years now, and hasn’t fully adapted to them. She still can’t go down stairs without hanging onto me. Understand, I don’t mind her hanging onto me.
I personally have acquired the short arm syndrome, and take care of it with Wal-Mart bifocals of 1 diopter. The top lens is plano and I have no trouble navigating normally in life. I usually only wear them at work and find myself having to remove them when working the CADD workstation, or other cyber type work.
My solution will work for anyone without astigmatism which malady requires lenses with more complex grinding as they require biaxial correction. My wife has that problem and may partially explain why she has never fully adapted.
I went with the eye doctor glasses and it was a wipe out. Nauseous, out of balance, etc.
The next year I went back to the eye dr. and he told me to go to wal-mart. Smartest advice I ever got!
I’m a 1.5 gal…
Walmart baby! I have pairs scattered around hither and yon from years of buying reading glasses. The most abused pairs end up in emergency reach in such places as the glove compartment, workshop, throne reading room and such, with the better pairs on the nightstand, office, and always the newest in my shirt pocket. Of course, they are NEVER in the place when I need one and the pixies all gather them in one room at night. I swear!
My biggest complaint with the Walmart glasses I have is the spring loaded earpiece breaks at the hinge. I buy a new pair every couple of months (2-3) because I am rough on glasses. (used to buy Bausch and Lomb sunglasses at the BX but went cheap after breaking the earpiece on my third pair…. and that was when they could be had for $25. Now they’re what? $100+?)
I’d love to find a pair of “reading sunglasses” like reading glasses. Too hard on the eyes in the bright sun for me.
I tried BI’s and progressives and just kept with the wally world thing on the advice of the opthomologist.
As with RonF, to my understanding “progressive” lenses are just no-line bifocal or trifocal lenses, and I had to switch to bifocals about the same time he did.
My own vision started out as strong near-sightedness back in the sixth grade, with significant astigmatism. Never had a problem with far-seeing until my mid-forties.
While I use no-line bifocal glasses, most of the time I use bi-focal contact lenses. I literally see no difference between various distances. When I pestered my eye-doctor why, I was told the brain re-interprets the input from my eyes, so I “see” normally. In other words, magic.
Best of all: when wearing glasses I lose a bit of close-in depth perception (still fine driving and such) and have not much peripheral vision. With the contacts I retain my depth perception and regain my peripheral vision. The difference is such that I am quite reluctant to wear my eyeglasses most of the time.
No-line bifocal contacts are da bomb.
Yep. Progressives. They get’cha every time.
I have been wearing my progressives for many years now, I cannot wear the bifocals with lines although the line-less ones are fine with me.
I do however have dollar store readers in every room and some rooms with several pair as the real glasses usually come off when I get home.
One does have to really limit the time wearing the cheap readers as the quality of the glass is lacking, read with glasses that you get from your Ophthalmologist/Optometrist.
A co-worker had his glasses made with just a very small area near the bottom of the lens with the bifocal.
You might trade some air time with the Dr. to show exactly what your needs are.
I brought my target rifle with aperature sights to my eye Dr. so he could see and move the bifocal part to the correct place in my shooting glasses, this was a little easier than you having to bring the airplane to the Dr.s office.
As always “your milage may vary and you get what you pay for”.
Spent my life (since 3rd grade) near-sighted in ever thicker lenses, thank goodness for plastic lenses. Loved contacts, but the microbiology didn’t work out after a few years. Finally, before going to Iraq in ’05 went and splurged in Lasik. Because of my advancing years (trailing only slightly behind our host) I was repeatedly warned that I would shortly be back in reading glasses. But for four years I did just fine. My eyes are a dance of vitreous floaters (no effective treatment at this time), but I can see the distance beautifully. In the last two months, however, my near vision has all but collapsed, and cheap reading glasses mark my trail.
So I guess my sympathy meter is kinda low on you lifetime perfect eyes guys finally needing to buy a pair of reading glasses.
In fact, I just remembered you once snarking at a party at Smitty’s house that your daughter’s eyes (she still carried snugly in your arms) were better than mine. So yeah, enjoy your new tribulation!
I hear ya on the plastic lenses. Without them I’d be beyond-Cokebottle at this point. Contacts – loved em for a coupla years, then my vision, or lack thereof, decided it would move beyond correctability with contacts. So now my glasses are my fashion statement – and I like it.
All I get is trifocals from the VA, with lines. I prefer the lines. It gives me a better sense of reference. And it ticks off all those union hacks I have worked with in the past.
Presbyopia (stiffening of the eye’s lens) is a nearly universal problem of geezers. I’m with Lex in disliking bifocals after trying them. And Walmart reading glasses are great and cheap. So why doesn’t Walmart offer negative diopter distance glasses? Then we could have the best of both worlds – a pair for the bedstand, another pair for the car, and nothing for the mid-field everyday world. Now that’s freedom!
What’s interesting is that I wore glasses since the 4th grade. In college my vision worsened a bit and that knocked me out of NFO contention.
Anyway, I ended up having cataracts come in early. It was a side effect of the meds i was taking. In the old days, they’d treat the cataracts by removing the natural lens and replacing it with a clear lens, and you’d go back to contacts or eye glasses. Nowadays, they replace the natural lens with a plastic corrective lens. I literally went from serious near-sightedness to 20-20 vision overnight. Like everyone over 40, my close-in focus has departed, but those cheap $3 a pair reading glasses work great. I bought the half-frame type so that I can read, but also look over the top for normal vision if I need to.
I am amazed that eye doctors do not offer the replacement surgery in lieu of lasik. There’s literally no pain in the procedure, and you only wear a bandage for 24 hours. After that, you take eye drops for about a month, but gosh… it’s simply amazing to have the clarity of vision without needing eye glasses for other than reading.
respects,
AW1 Tim/
My opinion FWIW as a crusty old has-been surgeon, is that lasik has the advantage by leaving the natural lens, that a young’un still has adaptive focus, for a while, which is the part they don’t tell you about. So the naif thinks his vision has been cured once and for all, only to find 20 years later that he’s gonna need glasses anyway, and lasik for all its expense has merely delayed the inevitable. What’s it all about? “Marketing!”. And I can’t deny the initial advantage of lasik. But I think you made the good choice.
My opthamologist has this to say about Lasik surgery: he thinks it’s a great technology but so is the space shuttle and he’s not going up in it anytime soon.
I had PRK done by the Navy when it was still “under investigation”. Worked great for about 7 years, but then I had to get glasses anyway. Now-eaxctly as they warned me-I need reading glasses. When I got my glasses (back) the doctor said I was just getting old.
I had the Lasik done about 10 years ago and it is probably the best money I ever spent. Had to wear reading glasses anyway due to the wonderful benefits of aging, and at $3 a pop I have a dozen in various places. No more $300 prescription glasses or having to put up with the aggravations that prescription glasses entail.
Will I need another Lasik (or other similar procedure) done in 5-10 years? Maybe, but that is fine with me.
YMMV, but I am a huge fan of Lasik.
Re: Progressive lenses.
I had three pair of glasses in a ten year period of time—each with “progressive lenses.” Take ‘em back now, and demand your money back. Get regular bifocal lenses, and don’t let those people try to talk you out of it or pull any crap. Progressive lenses sound good in theory—but stink in reality. As a pilot, you cannot give up your periphery vision, and the bottom distortion is flat out dangerous. I have worn glasses since I was 10, trifocals since I was in my 30s. Now I am 57 and will NEVER let them sucker me into “progressives” again.
When I started needing reading glasses they talked me into trying progressives. They pulled canal water to an impressive height. There was no way I could find a sweet spot for whatever it was that I was doing at the time. I tossed the lenses and bought bifocals. Plain old bifocals work great for me. One of the fellows I work with has his reader bifocals in the top for computer work. I just went with full size readers for computer work.
I’ve had glasses for 45 years and I tried the ‘progressive’ type lenses a couple years ago and hated them. I was patient, as advised, and kept trying them, still hated them, then got rid of them in favor of bifocals with the line showing so that I KNOW where the break is for reading or distance. Far better for me. FAR BETTER. Hate the progressive lenses, and I detest the invisible demarcations between corrections….always tilting the head up / down to find the sweet spot as it were. Hated them. Passionately. Good luck, Lex. Geez I didn’t like progressive lenses. Don’t even like the word anymore due to other reasons.
Hmmm. The responses are striking; either “love (or at least accept) it” or “hate it.”
As I said above, I find progressive glasses quite acceptable, but strongly prefer bifocal contacts. I don’t expect there are any “with line” bifocal contacts out there, and they correct what seem to be most of the major complaints.
And (to date) I seem to the the only commenter who has used bifocal contacts.
They work.
Casey — tried the bifocal contacts. I have a sight astigmatism, and those are a real problem with contacts. Still use them, since I always saw glasses as a sign of weakness
But on the weekends, out come the titanium framed progressives.
Thanks to Richard for the Dewalt tip — I have reading sunglasses for the beach, but couldn’t see anything past my hands, and couldn’t use them driving. Voila! And what selection at Amazon.
Lex, here’s an interesting HR blog post that brings a different light to the topic of diversity:
http://evilhrlady.blogspot.com/2009/06/our-strength-lies-in-our.html
If for nothing else, don’t you at least want to see a blog called “Evil HR Lady”?