Introducting the California Poppy Redesign
I just rolled out a CSS and javascript redesign of the site. The posts should all render but a lot … More Introducting the California Poppy Redesign
I just rolled out a CSS and javascript redesign of the site. The posts should all render but a lot … More Introducting the California Poppy Redesign
GovExec.com, always a good source of inside-DHS information shares this tidbit from a closed-door information security meeting: Chertoff is thinking … More Outsourcing Total Information Awareness?
I’ve been asked by o thers for the CFR code for reinstatement of permanent employess. Here it is: Code of … More 5 CFR 335.103(c)(3)(v)
At every CBP airport there is a team called the Passenger Analysis Unit (PAU). These people sit in cubicles and … More 8-hours of PAU
To start this off: I queried a passenger today — a Chinese fund manager — about when the Yuan is … More More on the Chinese Revaluation
I’m sure there’s a perfectly good reason why TSA screeners in Denver decided to make pengins walk through the metal … More Flightless Birds a Threat to Aviation
It’s a strange moment when you look in your closet and think “damn, I need more colors.” * * * … More Snippets of Nothing
It seems like like all the economics bloggers are talking about floating the Chinese Yuan, “soft landings” and “hard landings” … More About-Face on Renminbi Threatens Economic Melt-Down
I have a partial answer to a question posed by Kash at Angry Bear: Why is China still holding on … More China’s National Interest in a Full Employment
April 20th David Lazarus, a San Francisco Chronicle columnist, wrote that TurboTax and H&R Block online tax filing systems may … More April 15th Misdemeanors by TurboTax, H&R Block
aye-aye, noun. (plural aye-ayes) latin: Daubentonia madagascariensis. Origin: Malagasy, aye-aye can mean something that someone does not want to talk … More Kintana the Aye-Aye
Yep. I’m one of those April 15th, 11th hour, “last post office open” kind of tax payers. And I like … More Tax Day In San Bruno (CA)
This one comes via Robert Silvey of Rubicon, who earned a place on my RSS aggrigator for his writing on … More Dubious Honor for The President
It sounds like a corollary to Douglas Adam’s Somebody Else’s Problem field or Murphy’s Law… J. Bradford DeLong suggests a … More DeLong Sr’s Law of Proofreading
Following on Tuesday’s post about a decline in real incomes for Americans, The Onion runs an article announcing that Cost … More Onion: Cost of Living Now Outweighs Benefits
The story’s number three on Blogdex: “Wages Lagging Behind Prices“. Worker pay raises trail inflation but the numbers obscure the … More Drip, Drip Drip: Worker Pay Drops