Carl Botterud

It pales to a kerfuffle.

In my 3rd year as a lawyer, the firm I was with merged with another practice. At a dinner, the new partner, commenting on associate hours, “all associates are fungible.” I told him he was wrong, and that was no way to treat people. I left the next day and hung my shingle.

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Thank you AWI for a phenomenal workplace investigator institute!

Glad you liked it! Grateful you are part of the community!

I have done/sent all three. I prefer to receive no. 3.

FDR SOTU 1944 - prophetic:

… if … we were to return to the so-called "normalcy" of the 1920's—then it is certain that even though we shall have conquered our enemies on the battlefields abroad, we shall have yielded to the spirit of Fascism here at home."

www.fdrlibrary.org/address-text

Trump is attacking the FBI and his supporters use the rationale that it’s necessary because people no longer trust the FBI - conveniently ignoring that people don’t trust the FBI because Trump and his ppl have spent years attacking it

I want to tell @EricReinhart how outraged and offended I am that the opinion piece he wrote for my newspaper @latimes.com was edited to change its meaning. I am so so sorry that this happened. And I happen to agree that making RFK Jr. hed of HHS is a mass casualty event waiting to happen.

Agreed. My 60+ years as a reader and subscriber are coming to an end once my paid year runs out. Investing my reading time and resources into journalism not controlled by wealthy supplicants bending their collective knees.

Abandoned Wednesday morning. Found Wednesday afternoon. No chip. Vet visit with more to come. Now home. Introducing my grand dog, Keaka. #DogsofBluesky

Puts “Death of Expertise” in a whole new light.

Column: How Donald Trump's second inauguration outdid the cruelty and excesses of his first The president freed the Jan. 6 insurrectionists, disparaged California firefighters and welcomed the members of a new American oligarchy to Washington.

Column: How Donald Trump’s second inauguration outdid the cruelty and excesses of his first

@rabcarian.bsky.social

www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Read this report before the Trump administration withdraws or disappears it for being woke

Exactly!!

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

Posting this story about how Ann Telnaes got censored not least bc it'll disseminate the image Jeff Bezos censored.

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

My sole note is that the former should read 1985.

If you were outside with family or friends in good weather then I think it’s a win.

Me: Dr. Salk your vaccine will save so many children!

Salk: Well thank God

Me: Of course they will grow up

Salk: Well I hope so

Me: And get old

Salk: I guess?

Me: And eventually vote for lunatics who will try to stop your vaccine

Salk: what now

Me: And leave NATO

Salk: shit

CHAPTER XI WHEN I was a kid, one time I had an old-maid teacher that used to tell me, "Buzz, you're the thickest-headed dunce in school." But I noticed that she told me this a whole lot oftener than she used to tell the other kids how smart they were, and I came to be the most talked-about scholar in the whole township. The United States Senate isn't so different, and I want to thank a lot of stuffed shirts for their remarks about Yours Truly. Zero Hour, Berzelius Windrip.

In Sinclair Lewis's "It Can't Happen Here," (1935) the fascist who got elected President of the United States writes in his autobiography about his realization, early in life, that being an obnoxious dunce got him far more attention than being a smart and decent person.

And to you.

Back at ya.

Someone has been watching too much of Taylor Sheridan’s Lioness season 2. Probably thinks it’s a documentary.

Even people we’ve disagreed with bitterly on fundamental issues can come together around the idea Trumpists are shitty, broken people.

If you are interested in free speech or defamation issues, read this.

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Happy to be here.

History will repeat itself

Same

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