Brandon Belford, Senior Policy Advisor in the National Economic Council, talks about his first job, the lessons he learned and how they still apply to his work today. Go find your first job at http://www.whitehouse.gov/summerjobs
There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor does. The other kind holds people up to public contempt and ridicule -- that's what I do. Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.