Here's a straight razor of a piece with a headline that can't be overstated: "PandoDaily Is Really Very Terrible"—the perfect analogy: "Imagine the Associated Press bragging about one of its congressional reporters being 'a huge advocate for the Capitol Hill scene.'"

Last week brought us some brutal VC-on-VC invective, and today, the Silicon Valley Honesty Hour continues with a perfectly honest warning to would-be startup employees. It's not all bean bag chairs and free massages.

Space-privatizer and car-electrifier Elon Musk is still one of the precious few (openly) honest people in the tech immigration debate right now: he minced zero words to AllThingsD about ditching Zuckerberg & Co. over their political machinations.

Former Facebook bigwig and current investor Chamath Palihapitiya isn't pulling any punches at this week's TechCrunch Disrupt, where many a punch is typically pulled. He's disgusted with what's called tech innovation now, saying "we are at an absolute minimum in terms of things that are being started."