pencil-pusher

Bob Baker in no modus operandi fails to absorb me with his podcasts, books, blogs and Facebook posts. by This for the moment he points us to another pencil-pusher, Leo Babauta, who writes a blog called Zen Habits and another one-liner called Write to Done.

The Culture of Sharing: Why Releasing Copyright Will Be the Smartest Thing You Do | Write to Done 2009

In theory, you could have an egalitarian society in which the lowly worker was valued just as much as the pencil-pusher.

Matthew Yglesias » The Brie Factor 2010

Wikus evolves from smug pencil-pusher to terrorized victim to compassionate hero in a natural, believable way.

Heart-pumping, alien-laden 'District 9' is sci-fi at its finest 2009

Losing all our family assets to some smartypants government pencil-pusher who thinks he knows what's best.

Nato Green: 10 Plagues Excerpted from Bernie Madoff's Last Seder at Home 2010

Losing all our family assets to some smartypants government pencil-pusher who thinks he knows what's best.

10 Plagues Excerpted from Bernie Madoff's Last Seder at Home Nato Green 2010

Bruce McAllister's "Kin" takes place in an overpopulated future, where a 12-year-old boy named Kim wants an alien assassin to prevent the government-sanctioned abortion of his unborn sister by killing the pencil-pusher assigned to initiate it.

REVIEW: Mini-Masterpieces of Science Fiction edited by Allan Kaster 2008

To be clear: the film -- about an ice-hockey player who almost reveals to a young girl that there's no such thing as the tooth fairy, and who in punishment must become a tooth fairy himself -- is a Capra retread: Dwayne Johnson's main character is assisted by Stephen Merchant's pencil-pusher, who is attempting to earn his fairy 'wings'.

The Tooth Fairy (2010) Adam Roberts 2010

Enter Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley), a twitchy pencil-pusher who is put in charge of the evictions, helped by the fact that his father-in-law is a big cheese wat MNU.

District 9 Blew My Mind! 2009

Maybe the humour was too broad for me - Israel's loserness, the complete stupidity of the town council's library representative - the fat, Asian, bureaucratic Linda although there are a few great moments of PC-to-the-max pencil-pusher ridiculousness with her.

Review: The Case of the Missing Books tinylittlelibrarian 2009

Synopsis: In an overpopulated future, a 12-year-old boy named Kim wants an alien assassin to prevent the government-sanctioned abortion of his unborn sister by killing the pencil-pusher assigned to initiate it.

REVIEW: 2007 Hugo Award Short Fiction Nominees 2007