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This doesn’t answer the perennial question of “which species is better, cats or dogs?” but it definitely settles the issue of which species is more badassery. In other news: my nephew poochie is home and resting as comfortably as one can in the dreaded cone of shame. My sister won’t have the test results until late next week but the vet said the surgery went well and the tumor appeared to be encapsulated which is a good sign. So thank you, everybody, for the doggie prayers.On the kitchen front, Raj and I are cooking pheasant tonight for the neighbors. I...

Millennials struggle to make it past the crucial 90-day mark when starting a new job largely due to “own goals” such as lateness and absenteeism, a HR expert says. Greg Weiss, who specializes in developing “onboarding” programs to help improve retention rates, says businesses face a growing challenge with the new generation. According to Deloitte, millennials will make up 75 percent of the global workforce by 2025, but data shows this cohort have a much higher churn rate — and it’s costing money. In 2015, the Australian arm of global consulting firm PwC estimated staff turnover in the first 12...

Employees at The New York Times are reportedly in a simmering generational "civil war," debating whether or not the newspaper should abandon longstanding journalistic norms in the age of Trump. "I’ve been feeling a lot lately like the newsroom is split into roughly the old-guard category, and the young and ‘woke’ category, and it’s easy to feel that the former group doesn’t take into account how much the future of the paper is predicated on the talent contained in the latter one," a Times employee told Vanity Fair. "I know a lot of others at the paper with similar positions...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Frank Sesno. You know, Frank Sesno teaches journalism now. He's a former CNN anchor. My memory of Frank Sesno... I'll just share this. Frank Sesno used to be an anchor at CNN, and this is back during the Reagan years, and the Soviet Union back then was not an economic power. The media wanted it to be. The Democrats wanted it to be. They were a nuclear power. They were a Third World nation with a First World military. But they couldn't feed their own people. Anyway... This might have been post-Reagan. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think...