Contrary to so much of the eyeball-catching rhetoric all over the blogosphere these days, you can indeed learn positive lessons from bosses who exhibit qualities you don't necessarily like.
It is not possible to determine whether both continents are moving in opposite directions or whether one continent is stationary and the other is drifting away from it.
Instead, Southern slaveholders misconstrued abolitionist views of the 1830s as mainstream rather than marginal Northern public opinion, and castigated Northerners generally for opposing slavery.
On the contrary, it's people like Mr. Ryan, who want to exempt the very rich from bearing any of the burden of making our finances sustainable, who are waging class war.