Beauty pageants are hard work

…especially if you have no talent. Ah, YouTube. Where no humiliation goes undisseminated. (Thanks to reader Whit Honea, who pointed me to the great daddy blog Dadcentric.com, where I first saw this clip.)

How we retaliate when the boss is a pig

New research from Florida State University was triggered by this observation: Considerable attention, both in blogs and in popular media, has been given to abusive bosses over the past few years. (See the Web sites HateBoss.com and WorkRant.com, for example.) Less discussed are employees’ responses to such behavior. How do employees react to abusive supervisors? [...]