August 2009
16 posts
“Lavender, what the hell is lavender? I thought it was a color.”
– oh dad.
Reading Malcom Gladwell’s Outliers on the plane out to Denver…on the chapter entitled “the ethnic theory of plane crashes” in which he describes the fatal mistakes of Avianca flight 105 failing to communicate to air traffic control that they are about to run out of fuel after circling the airport due to bad weather.
Meanwhile, my airplane is circling due to bad weather....
On Those "Entitled" Twenty-Somethings
fascinated:
seagull:
squashed:
Apparently people in their 20s are a bunch of entitled whiners. I also hear we’re afraid of hard work. And I’m rather sick of hearing it. Of course we have a sense of entitlement—we had an understanding with the older generation. We followed through with our half of the deal.
The word “entitlement” has picked up a negative connotation it shouldn’t have. If you...
