A slide from a recent “Dress for Success” presentation given at the Defense Intelligence Agency. The presentation recommended that women dress conservatively, but that they not take a “Plain Jane” approach to makeup.
“Even smart people do dumb things sometimes,” the DIA director said, in an email to employees apologizing for the training.
a former U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service enforcement agent, on the double standard of punishing companies for killing eagles. When oil companies do it, they’re prosecuted, when wind farms do, they’re shielded from liability.
(Via AP)
Screenshot of an image that Middle Tennessee Commissioner Barry West posted on Facebook.
He responded in an email to The Tennessean: “No I did not Twitter this … no I did not create this picture … yes I shared it … so why am I being singled out?”
“They might try to jew me down on a price.”
-Oklahoma State Rep. Dennis Johnson, on haggling with customers as a small business owner.
“I apologize to the Jews,” Johnson said a minute later, after someone comments on his use of the slur. “They’re good small businessmen as well.”
A tick-tock of CNN’s “very cautious and speculative” coverage of the Boston bombing investigation. via BuzzFeed
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