Houston Public Works employees
dug up my banana plant last week to work on the sewer line. They’ve not been here for 5 days, but the plant just sits there, dying.
(houston, bureaucracy, damage)
“Sad banana plant” by joecarlwhite
Category: Random News
Maps – A Walk to get Coffee
Got things generally right, within 5 meters (has me walking down the street instead of the south sidewalk most of the time), and got the altitude pretty wrong, but will do until I read up on how to calibrate.
That’s what John Tran called me once. Tonight, I once again lived up to that sobriquet . On the way home from Anne’s (after a great dinner with Webb and Christy at El Patio, followed by watching the idiosyncratic Second Best with Joe Pantoliano), I stopped at Walgreen’s (to get some antacid to deal with the effects of the aforementioned great dinner). In the middle of the store they had a bin of mens dress socks for $1/pair. I bought five pairs.
Oh, come see my show. It’s pretty good.
from Cato-at-Liberty.org: Minimum Wage: From the Horse’s Mouth:
Via the admitedly pro-business Employment Policies Institute, a funny anecdote regarding this whole minimum wage debate:
The generally accepted leading advocacy group for so-called “living wage” laws around the country is the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. In it’s Resource Guide for activists, written by David Reynolds of the Wayne State University Labor Studies Center, ACORN casts aside concerns about minimum wage laws resulting in fewer jobs for low-wage workers, scolding
That’s low road thinking, the kind of philosophy that seeks short-term increases in the bottom-line by directly lowering costs and casts high wages, benefits, and other worker protections as obstacles to competition.
But in 1995, ACORN actually went to court in California in an attemp to exempt ACORN from that state’s minimum wage and overtime laws. Why? Well, according to ACORN’s brief in an appeal of the ruling against them:
…the more that ACORN must pay each individual outreach worker – either because of minimum wage or overtime requirements – the fewer outreach workers it will be able to hire.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce couldn”t have said it any better.