It's Hard To Spot The Bad Guys (When They're All Bad)

Leadership? What does it mean? It's hard to say nowadays - it's obviously got something to do with education, and nothing to do with ethics, or the imperative of alleviating black poverty - especially considering the examples so many are associated with:

   "In early 2005, as demand for Silicon Valley engineers began booming, Apple’s Steve Jobs sealed a secret and illegal pact with Google’s Eric Schmidt to artificially push their workers wages lower by agreeing not to recruit each other’s employees, sharing wage scale information, and punishing violators. On February 27, 2005, Bill Campbell, a member of Apple’s board of directors and senior advisor to Google, emailed Jobs to confirm that Eric Schmidt “got directly involved and firmly stopped all efforts to recruit anyone from Apple.”

Later that year, Schmidt instructed his Sr VP for Business Operation Shona Brown to keep the pact a secret and only share information “verbally, since I don’t want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later?” These secret conversations and agreements between some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley were first exposed in a Department of Justice antitrust investigation launched by the Obama Administration in 2010,...”

That's California, where I was told (after I'd lived there for 23 years) everything was - as they say - "hunky-dory". But how about Texas? That great example California's always being compared to by conservatives? They've got a bunch of morons, too, capable of investing in pyramid schemes, initiated by a Christian scam artist who claimed to have found Noah's Ark:

  "I wouldn't want these guys running the state. It looks like they found Noah's Ark and it sunk."

The whole country is sinking - under the weight of privileged fools,…