Incompetence

Good grief

Kunstler’s eyesore of the month, which I will naughtily link off of his server:


The naïveté . . .

Here’s danah boyd complaining about routine contracts:
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/10/02/read_those_cont.html
It sounds like the contract is for a board member. Of course she shouldn’t be providing services directly related to the company’s offering! Sheesh. If she’s an expert on everything, then I suppose it would be a style-crimper.
If it’s really too close to home, she shouldn’t be on that […]


Incompetence, Episode II

From the New York Times, Sunday, August 19, 2007:
The precipitous fall in the value of mortgage-backed bonds was spurred by  a mad rush by so many holders to dump them simultaneously. That is because they might not have understood what they were buying in the first place, instead focusing only on the bonds’ higher yields.


Incompetence, Episode I

From the New York Times, Sunday, August 19, 2007:
Broad new surveillance powers approved by Congress this month could allow the Bush administration to conduct spy operations that go well beyond wiretapping . . . lawmakers, in a frenetic, end-of-session scramble, passed legislation they may not have fully understood.