2010-11-28

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Politics and business.

In what is perhaps a well-known joke that isn't really a joke, a psychologist came up with the Peter Principle: everyone is promoted until they reach their level of incompetence, and soon enough an entire organization is running terribly and inefficiently. We, of course, don't like to take this idea too seriously, even though some mathematical and statistical studies have been developed to test the idea.
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Canada Needs an Adult!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11843792

Seems a bishop in the Orthodox church has been charged with molesting kids. Given how this sort of scandal has hurt the Catholic Church in recent years do you think the Orthodox church will react in a more open fashion or could we be looking at the tip of the iceberg in a similar but whole new scandal?