Paperwork

I filled out some paperwork today (significantly more than an hour of time involved) related to a job application. Most of this was in direct consequence of federal government requirements.

On the other hand, I fully expect that alleged-President Obama filled out far less paperwork to "qualify" (*) for the position he currently occupies.


(*) The quote marks are because we *know* that he's not qualified in one important sense of the word and we have no rationally valid reason to believe, much less assert, that he's qualified in the other, at least equally important, sense.

Vox Day on Unions

Vox Day: Fire them all -- "Unions are the evil, stupid, parasitic cousin of government. They possess most of the negative attributes with none of the positive ones."

That pretty much sums it up, don't you think?

Somewhat Topical

The Oatmeal: The 6 Crappiest Interview Questions and The 10 Types of Crappy Interviewees

A Medical -- and Metaphysical -- Mystery

via Mike Flynn: The Instrumentality of the Brain ... "the cerebellum is essentially absent."

* That is, it's a metaphysical mystery for materialists.