Scott Thompson does not really have a CS degree? Elizabeth Warren is not really a Native American?

If this trend in falsifying credentials continues, how long before the revelations that Rich Kyanka did not really attend Turtle Mountain Community College?

A couple of interesting and related things on the subject of hiring strategies appeared this week in the Wall Street Journal.

First, a fascinating review of the book "The Rare Find" by George Anders. The review beings with this interesting anecdote and gets better after that:

When Joanne Rowling, an unemployed single mother, showed her first fanciful manuscript to a dozen British publishing houses, all quickly passed on it. Eventually a single bid emerged—for about $2,500—from Bloomsbury, then a small London publisher. Wise move: Ms. Rowling's "Harry Potter" franchise is now worth billions.

Next, James Taranto theorizes that college degrees are proxy for IQ Tests, which it is illegal to use in hiring. It raises the question of whether FaceBook's Programming Challenges will not become the target of lawsuits on the basis of "differential impact" as in Griggs V. Duke Power Co.

The culprits are:

  Jeffrey Klein

  Diane Savino

  David Carlucci

  David Valesky

They of a growing movement to end democracy. See, for example, North Carolina Governor Beverly Purdue's suggestion that federal elections be suspended. James Taranto provides other examples.

My favorites:

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A few observations:

The only animal life presented in the few photos returned from a Google image search for TSA employee "Theldala Magee" is captioned "Slug on Cabbage."

Is being a rapist a disability? Will the EEOC protect Ms. Magee's right to rape airline passengers as it protects the rights of alcoholic commercial truck drivers to drive trucks?

You have stated in your FAQ:

"We haven’t made a decision on open hardware yet. "

What is your reasoning process here; Specifically as a charitable non-profit, what would be your motives for not making it an open design?

Is Marxism to any degree correct? Ancient mankind observed the sun as a great ball of fire in the sky and held faith in an adjunct explanatory mythology. So like Marxism; A rudimentary foundation in direct observation embellished with lustrous imaginings. It is observed that property denotes social status and quality products are valued. Marx, his signature trait of pseudo-intellectual jargonism at full power, concocts a terminology where plainspokenness will do; this is "Commodity Fetishism." And then the inevitable drivel at which the weak-minded swoon, an assertion contracting all that is known about life and history, that the desire for nice stuff is a perversity spawned and propagated by Capitalism. No. The iPod is not a vice an that desire has existed always and everywhere throughout history under all systems of government, with the rare exception of the unconventional spartan sects which renounce it. And Marxism is all like that: Mundane observation, jargonistic terminology, idiotic reasoning. Again and again and again and great steaming piles of dialectical materialism and a labor theory of value.

Yet that Communism's modern means of advance are not the bloody civil wars and inhumane labor camps of the past but mincing quibbles by its eccentric supporters in this forum is certain progress.

It is noteworthy that in less than half a century the defenders of Communism have gone from "We will bury you," to questioning whether Karl Marx was actually right about anything, whatsoever. Now, after the Soviet Union, that great empire of Communism, has collapsed in economic ruin to reveal its vaunted record of equality and prosperity to be a great lie. Now, shrunken to its last vestiges in the grotesque spectacle of North Korea, reminding perpetually of the horror intrinsic to the Communist system.

Marx is to economics what Freud is to psychology; Each an intellectual neanderthal popularizing a fraudulent science of his own invention. As with with Christian leadership which Freud and Marx partially supplanted, they seduced legions of fools with nonsense.

Communism indefensible, its sympathizers retrench to ask, at least were Marx's criticisms of Capitalism correct. Communism is greatly diminished but plentiful fools remain to answer that question in the affirmative.

"Cue" not "Queue".

(Oh I am so embarrassed.)

Despite numerous tests, doctors can't explain how he's able to draw and paint while he's not conscious, or even what stage of sleep he's in while he works.

Perhaps he is in fact drawing while awake and we are all a dream he experiences when he is asleep.

(Queue eerie music and scary flying door.)