Amid this morning’s news of last night’s mindless, violent “occupy” mob action in Oakland, California, there was a nugget of corporate stupidity and cowardice I hope will not go unnoticed. Scrolling through my Twitter feed to catch up on events, I came across this post from @SooperMexican:
It seems The Men’s Wearhouse clothing store chain has made a gambit to protect its property and merchandise from the destruction and looting typical of anarchist thugs like the “occupy” dregs, by offering an obsequious expression of support for these harbingers of mass stupidity. Continue reading
First they came for the bankers and the Wall Street traders, and I didn’t speak out because I thought they had more money than they deserved.
There are people who casually employ words that most of us have never heard, simply because they have a richly expansive vocabulary, and wish to express themselves with clarity and precision. When they discover that the listener has lost the thread of a conversation, they quickly repeat their points in much simpler terms. They do this, however, with such deft grace and social tact that the listener is left wondering if perhaps the speaker himself had not initially misspoken. The last thing a person of this character would ever want is to leave someone feeling intellectually inferior.
