There is a funny piece in The Onion about the CIA’s discovery that they have been using black markers as highlighter pens all these years. The story reports that “almost invariably the most crucial passages are marred by an indelible black ink that renders the lines impossible to read, due to a top-secret highlighting policy [...]
Archive for January 26th, 2008
CIA uses black highlighter pens
Posted in In the News, tagged CIA, humor, The Onion on January 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A tsunami of homeless veterans
Posted in In the News, tagged homeless, homelessness, veterans on January 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A homeless veteran is a guy on the median strip holding a ragged cardboard sign that says, “Veteran. Everything helps! God Bless!” right? These are the people we avoid making eye contact with because eye contact is a sort of unspoken contract that acknowledges that “I see you. Do you have something to say to me? [...]
Standardizing diversity for the public good
Posted in In the News, tagged diversity, hiring, interviews on January 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A local Tucson fellow with a responsible job wrote a condescending article not too long ago about how he rejected a qualified job candidate because she had body piercings and was dressed in a sexually provocative manner. You can read his article in AZbiz.com. He not only rejected a candidate he considered otherwise qualified, but [...]