Top suicide bomb instructor accidentally blows up his entering class of would-be suicide bombers.
The Democrat who lost to Chris Christie in the New Jersey governor’s race last year has apparently decided to set her Rolodex on fire.
Paper has to issue correction over whether BridgeGate scandal figure called enemy “piece of crap” or “piece of excrement.”
Incredibly inspiring to see anonymous NFL execs and now a prominent ex-NFL coach dumping on a top NFL draft pick who just revealed he’s gay and would likely be the first openly gay player in NFL history.
Christie lawyers asking Hoboken Mayor for access to her documents related to the governor’s scandal? Also want to “interview” the Mayor with their team of “five former federal prosecutors.”
ICYMI: Why do so many conservatives think the American work ethic can’t survive without extra-economic threats and extortion?
Don’t miss this piece by Dylan Scott on what the recent CBO Obamacare dust-up tells us about the state of the American work ethic. One key point referenced in the piece is that autonomy, the ability to choose your job, move jobs, start your own company is a central part of what Americans aspire to.
We’ve talked a lot about ‘job lock‘. But there’s another part of this equation which Theda Skocpol references. We tend to think of the US (in contrast to Europe) as a nation of small businesses and strivers and entrepreneurs. But that’s objectively not the case, at least in one key sense: the small business and self-employed sectors are bigger in Europe than they are here.
I was about to link to this story about Michael Sam, Missouri’s All-America defensive end who came out last night just ahead of the NFL draft. Any player who comes out in major league sports is taking a brave step but Sam is doing so at what is likely the most vulnerable point professionally in a pro athletes’ career. So, helpfully, a bunch of NFL execs have come forward anonymously to Sports Illustrated to say, nope, the NFL ain’t ready.
We kick off this week’s edition of TPM Book Club with an excerpt from The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee: “Only 4 percent of software developers in the burgeoning app economy have made over a million dollars. Three-quarters of them made less than $30,000. While a handful of writers, actors, or baseball players can become millionaires, many others struggle to make ends meet.”
More on ‘job lock’ from TPM Reader SS …
The affordable care act is going to allow me to finally start my own law firm. For 15 years, I’ve been working at big and mid-size law firms for a lot of reasons, but one of the biggest was the benefits. My husband is 17 years older than me and has a pre-existing condition. I have been reluctant to start my own firm – be a “job creator”, because I would have had to enter the private insurance market and probably pay a fortune for coverage – if I was able to even get coverage for my husband.