Over at US News and World Report, I dropped off a column on how a boss should handle politics in the workplace. It is dicey issue and in these days of open transparency, I am sure some will disagree with my viewpoint of keeping your political leanings to yourself. Please jump over there when you have a moment and read it along with the other “outside career voices” like Curt Rosengren, MIchael Wade, Alison Green, Joel Cheeseman, Andrew GR, and Brandon Alsup, Brendan Henak

Actually, I have thought long and hard about the Big Race ’08 this summer and felt that you, my loyal readers, should know where I stand on the most important decision some of us will make this year. Over at USNEWS, I did not come down on one side or the other…and certainly did NOT endorse one over the other. I wanted to be Switzerland over there, but here….I will tell you who I am for. Wait for it, wait for it.

I realize many of you have waited for this moment, this moment of pure analysis, completely fair, balanced, and thoughtful. I have made my pick mostly because of how I feel about each alternative. On one hand, the one pick will truly have me on the edge of my chair, in a sort of adrenalin rush overload, a sort of “I don’t know if he can fly the plane, but I do so love a bumpy, thrilling ride.” And, it always works out in the end. The other is a safer pick, because I feel almost a part of the family, as it were. Going in, I know already how it turns out in the end (boring), but I will be happier for all of us, even though I may well fall asleep. As is often the case, my wife and daughter will vote for one, my son and me, the other. We cancel each other out, a true American family.

But in the choice of Indiana Jones or Sex and the City, which movie to attend first???….I am going to see [tag]Harrison Ford[/tag] first, not [tag]Sarah Jessica Parker[/tag]. A guy has to do what a guy has to do….(I do reserve the right to change my mind, or have it changed for me.)

Note: our family friend and Hollywood stuntman, [tag]Mark Norby[/tag], does stunts in the [tag]Indiana Jones[/tag] movie, yet another reason to attend it first.