Tweet Here’s something I read in the paper, sort of ‘a thing I learned while searching for the box scores.‘ Russian bureaucrats are mandating an improvement in customer service! A Siberian oil town mayor has banned the use of defeatist phrases by government employees. More than 2 dozen phrases, including "It’s not my job," and […]
Things I Learned While Looking Up Other Things
Tweet With all due respect to the late syndicated newspaper columnist Sidney J. Harris, I’ve decided that this blog needs a new category like, "Things I Learned While Looking Up Other Things", which was a frequent headline for Harris’ columns. I think he even wrote a book with that title. While I was pretty young […]
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