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By Miriam Elder in Moscow, The Guardian, May 17, 2013

Federal Security Service spokesman breaches protocol as he accuses US agency of crossing 'red line' in its recruitment efforts

As jobless claims "surprisingly" go up by 32,000 this month (uh, did everyone forget the sequester?), an Atlantic reporter notes the abandonment of workers by both GOP & Democrats.

While he pushes 3 theories how workers ended up under the bus, I'll push a 4th - "social media whatever".

It used to be most of us were consumers of news and marketing, while a few made their money that way. Now we're all "engaged" (sad co-opting of that word) - selling our goods on Craigslist & eBay, friending & liking pages up the rec list, putting our portals & blogs on-line, passing on videos if not doing mash-ups of our own...

We've become a hive of little businessmen, little Eichmanns as someone once put it - with the...