Morning in America: Butthurt Achieved

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Oops!

...all I can hope is that future historians note that one of the core empirical points providing the intellectual foundation for the global move to austerity in the early 2010s was based on someone accidentally not updating a row formula in Excel.

http://www.nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/researchers-finally-replicated-reinhart-rogoff-and-there-are-serious-problems

Kind of odd that they didn't release their data in the first place, isn't it?

They didn't have the data in front of them, at the time.

Datases are quite expensive these days.

Hopefully this is the part where Tank digs up the log on this particular joke because although I'm pretty sure I was involved in the original discussion I'm having a hard time remembering the details on this one. Was it Chuck who couldn't find his database?

No BH.

Specifically:

Look, I don't ahve all the data in front of me. I think Friedman is a bit better. I stated so in the past. Long before Theo became a posibility.

[R-V]

Oops!

...all I can hope is that future historians note that one of the core empirical points providing the intellectual foundation for the global move to austerity in the early 2010s was based on someone accidentally not updating a row formula in Excel.

http://www.nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/researchers-finally-replicated-reinhart-rogoff-and-there-are-serious-problems

Kind of odd that they didn't release their data in the first place, isn't it?

They didn't have the data in front of them, at the time.

Datases are quite expensive these days.

Hopefully this is the part where Tank digs up the log on this particular joke because although I'm pretty sure I was involved in the original discussion I'm having a hard time remembering the details on this one. Was it Chuck who couldn't find his database?

No BH.

Specifically:

Look, I don't ahve all the data in front of me. I think Friedman is a bit better. I stated so in the past. Long before Theo became a posibility.

Oh man I totally forgot about the Chuckument that Theo's GRAVITAS was needed to close the stadium deal. Clearly that played a huge role over the last few weeks. I haven't been in the shoutbox much of late, Chuck did you ever unveil your Friedman Better Than Epstein data tables?

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Intrepid Reader: Rand Paul

Just kidding, y'all.

[Gilgamesh]

This is a big win for our office here: http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/Legal/News/2013/04_-_April/American_Red_Cross_must_rescind_employment_changes/

Take that, American Red Cross!!

[Gilgamesh]

Also, nude conspiracies?!?!?  http://theweek.com/article/index/243177/feds-arrest-paul-ryans-former-intern-in-nude-picture-blackmail-scandal#

[Chuck to Chuck]

Bruce Rauner: We need to limit our teacher's influence on society and keep it in the hands of those with big money! http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20130424/BLOGS02/130429892/bruce-rauner-clouted-kid-into-payton-high-school-sources-say

[Gilgamesh]

This is the prelude to DEBT CEILING II: THE ENDEBTENING

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/gop-moves-away-from-entitlements-and-toward-tax-reform-in-budget-deal/2013/04/27/a3bfc5ac-add9-11e2-8bf6-e70cb6ae066e_print.html

[Wheezer]

If I really were a "gay-basher", as some headline writers so crassly suggested, why would I have asked Andrew Sullivan, of all people, to be the godfather of one of my sons, or to give one of the readings at my wedding?

I don't think you stuck the landing, Ferguson.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Because no one will watch this if I post it in the Youtube thread.

But maybe at least one of you will see it here.

"Think about it."

[Gilgamesh]

If an employee getting $10 an hour is worth $20 an hour to me as an employer, I'd rather pay the $15 up front (and pocket the $5) for an extra hour of work than lose $30 the next month when they take the 1.5 hours off (sure, I made the full $20 off their overtime hour of labor, but I'm at a net loss of $10 when they cost me $30 the next month - and more if I now have to hire another worker to cover people's comp time).  The reason it works so well for government employees is because so many of them aren't close to optimally productive, so nobody notices if you're gone an extra day here or there.

I'm all for flexibility for employees, but I wouldn't be shocked if workplaces that can easily define a worker's value based on output metrics (manufacturing, for instance) don't offer this.  I wouldn't be surprised if few employers offer it altogether.

Unless my understanding is wrong, comp time is one-for-one, isn't it? The employee's choices are pay at 1-1/2 times their normal rate, or getting the hour "back."

The people that I know who can get comp time get it at 1.5x. I  only get comp time for hours worked. That's on the Illinois A.AFSCME contract.. so, I think it varies

I don't think there's any text submitted for the bill in question yet, but the descriptions I've seen suggest comp time at 150% the overtime hours.

Passes on mostly party-line vote.

[Gilgamesh]

I generally dislike the 1%/99% meme/trope/circlejerk, but this is just abhorrent: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/disney_world_srich_kid_outrage_zTBA0xrvZRkIVc1zItXGDP

[Eli]

I generally dislike the 1%/99% meme/trope/circlejerk, but this is just abhorrent: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/disney_world_srich_kid_outrage_zTBA0xrvZRkIVc1zItXGDP

Hey, at least the super-wealthy are actually creating jobs for once.

[Quality Start Machine]

I generally dislike the 1%/99% meme/trope/circlejerk, but this is just abhorrent: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/disney_world_srich_kid_outrage_zTBA0xrvZRkIVc1zItXGDP

Hey, at least the super-wealthy are actually creating jobs for once.

$130 an hour? Huey, loan me your helmet, I'm going to Orlando.

[Gilgamesh]

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is increasingly becoming someone that I'd have absolutely no problems voting for, especially when he does something like this...

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/04/christie-calls-for-october-special-election/?hpt=hp_t2

and when he says things like this...

The costs associated with having a special election and primary, in my mind, cannot be measured against the value of having an elected member of the U.S. Senate. I don't know what the costs are, and frankly I don't care.

[Quality Start Machine]

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is increasingly becoming someone that I'd have absolutely no problems voting for, especially when he does something like this...

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/04/christie-calls-for-october-special-election/?hpt=hp_t2

and when he says things like this...

The costs associated with having a special election and primary, in my mind, cannot be measured against the value of having an elected member of the U.S. Senate. I don't know what the costs are, and frankly I don't care.

So I'm guessing he won't be doing the keynote at the 2016 RNC.