One salient aspect of America’s collective anxiety over the financial crisis is, of course, the deficit. The nascent “Tea Party” movement has tapped into this anxiety and made it a central thesis of their supposed revolution. Leaving aside for a second the Tea Partiers’ refusal to acknowledge the $5 trillion increase in the Federal debt that occurred under George W. Bush and the fact that they seem hopelessly incapable of suggesting a single rational solution to a problem they consider so devastating, the national debt is a potentially catastrophic problem …

The Economist did a great piece this month on the quandries of integrating the Net Generation (let’s call it those ranging from 20 to 32) into the workplace.  This generation (well, my generation) gained consciousness at the dawn of Nintendo in the late 80’s and matured through the birth of the internet, text messaging, Facebook, and the booms of the late 90’s and 2000’s.  In fact, a good portion of Net-Gen does not even remember life without the web and cell phones. I, on the other hand, do briefly remember …