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  > Liaison and Party Harmony: In the primary campaign your opposition is Jack Hopeful, a member of your own party. Never forget that you will need the support of all your party after the primary and never let your supporters forget it! > This is a very touchy, difficult matter, particularly in a volunteer organization. You are certain to have loyal supporters who are simple souls, unable to think in terms other than black and white. To them Jack Hopeful is the ENEMY - they will commit exce...

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  Not quite the same formulation, but I’ve read the argument that paternal leave should be equal to maternal leave, and that both should be mandatory, because otherwise it creates an incentive for companies to hire men rather than women who might make use of maternity leave. I can see a similar argument for all workers, so that there isn’t an incentive to hire people who will never have children over those who will. Of course, all of these scenarios presume that any companies would willingly pr...

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  Electronic countertop scale for the kitchen. Start cooking by mass rather than trying to decide if that's a half a cup packed or unpacked. If you regularly store things in jars, a canning funnel. So much easier to pour sauces into jars without spillage. Bone conduction headphones. Listen to music or talk on the phone hands-free while still leaving your ears open to what's going on around you. If you've got sore muscles, a percussive massage gun. It looks like a horse vibrator, but...