Cavalcade of Jerks

Great illustration by Ryan Sanchez for this (ahem) interesting story in the New York Times about dealing with freaks (aka difficult people) in your day-to-day life. The story doesn't offer much in the ways of dealing with these folks, just identifies a few theories on the issue and explains that it's a huge book & seminar biz right now.

While refreshing to know we're not alone in dealing with the fools of the world (#2 e-mailed on NY Times.com right now!), there are clearly no easy ways to resolve these relationships. But maybe I'm just being a Negativist...