"lasers are a young science"
There are the days when I wake up and remember that Neil Young made Trans. The world is a base material, composed of mud and mystery.
The other day, Udo and I were listening to “On the Beach” in the car, and he said he wanted that whole album played at his funeral. I, of course, want all of Trans played at mine. This reblog is a legally binding declaration of my last will and testament.
![theatlantic:
Are Most Federal Workers Overpaid? CBO Says Yes
The less educated you are, the better it is to work for the federal government — at least when it comes to your paycheck.
That’s more or less the finding of a new study by the Congressional Budget Office, which compared federal workforce compensation to the private sector using data from 2005 through 2010. The big headline figures, sure to make the rounds in conservative media, are that government employees made 2% more in wages, and 16% more in overall compensation, than their private sector counterparts. But as the graph below shows, there were vast variations between education levels. Read more.
[Image: Congressional Budget Office]
Here’s a telling example of the kind of lazy neoliberal analysis we’ve all come to expect from The Atlantic, one that eschews a goal-post-moving long-view for a typically free(ish)-market-derived short-term one in which the public sector ought to compete with the private sector in a race to the bottom.
The CBO doesn’t say federal workers are overpaid; Jordan Weissman of The Atlantic does. One could just as readily intuit from the study that low-level private-sector workers are underpaid, which, hello, yes.](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyoa7iMnKp1qcokc4o1_500.png)
Are Most Federal Workers Overpaid? CBO Says Yes
The less educated you are, the better it is to work for the federal government — at least when it comes to your paycheck.
That’s more or less the finding of a new study by the Congressional Budget Office, which compared federal workforce compensation to the private sector using data from 2005 through 2010. The big headline figures, sure to make the rounds in conservative media, are that government employees made 2% more in wages, and 16% more in overall compensation, than their private sector counterparts. But as the graph below shows, there were vast variations between education levels. Read more.
[Image: Congressional Budget Office]
Here’s a telling example of the kind of lazy neoliberal analysis we’ve all come to expect from The Atlantic, one that eschews a goal-post-moving long-view for a typically free(ish)-market-derived short-term one in which the public sector ought to compete with the private sector in a race to the bottom.
The CBO doesn’t say federal workers are overpaid; Jordan Weissman of The Atlantic does. One could just as readily intuit from the study that low-level private-sector workers are underpaid, which, hello, yes.
Justice |
"JUSTICE "ON'N'ON" RUINED BY RICK RUBIN"
Rick Rubin provides the funk Justice’s recent Audio, Video, Disco so sorely needed with his remix of “On’n’On”.
oh. fuck. yes.
Just read Tomas Rios’ great CLASSICAL post on women’s MMA and then immediately internetted all 4 of Ronda Rousey’s pro fights, which took a combined 2 minutes and 30 seconds to watch because she is indeed a goddamn armbar “savant” and does things like ⬆ this. (Warning: dislocated elbow footage above.)
Watching someone operate with that kind of grappling precision in an MMA bout gives me goosebumps.
(Source: youtube.com)
Four Chans
Quality
OTISMOON PIX OR GTFO
This Cat picture is relevant to my interests.
“Nimble” competitors are “nimble” because they can wake up 8000 people in the middle of the night with tea and a biscuit. By that standard, I’d imagine a Georgia plantation in 1847 was nimble as fuck. Look at the “employees” dancing nimbly for the whip!
China is a slave state that permits hundreds of thousands of people to live like cattle. American companies that utilize this labor are “competing” on the basis of their total indifference to the human consequences of their output. People shaken awake at midnight in factory/farm dormitories paid a pittance to satisfy the whims of plutocrats might give shareholders the stomach flutters and Andrew Carnegie’s corpse an erection, but let’s be real, New York Times. Let’s be really real about what “nimble” means and how inescapable international wage slavery really is.
Sent from my MacBook.
Let’s be talking about this. Let’s be talking about it as a human rights issue and not let it languish in the business section. Let’s be talking about it right alongside SOPA and indefinite detention. Let’s be talking about it on our iPhones. We’re all culpable.
Sent from my iPad.
Kickstarter is annoying but like please please please help make this Bill Callahan doc happen.
PS We were thinking of starting a rumor that in certain locales they’re running advertisements for Bank of America set to the tune of Callahan’s “America!” If anyone has any advice on how to start rumors, let us know.
Backed this. No-brainer.
This is a SOPA/PIPA post.
(Source: youtube.com)
St. Vincent
“Cheerleader”
Live on Conan, 1/16/2012
The homage to Elvis Costello at the start of this performance is really cute, but this version of “Cheerleader” is even better. The director clearly got excited about this one - instead of stock late night tv moves, they do some zooms to accentuate the stuttered rhythm in the chorus.
My main man Matty Johnson back there on drums lookin hella suave.
(Source: youtube.com)
I hope this is a joke. The New York Times Public Editor wonders aloud if their journalists should be reporting the truth.
Seriously?
Not a joke. Rather, a remarkable (and rare) instance of unintended honesty from the paper of record, acknowledgment and encapsulation of the propaganda model, in which “necessary illusions” subjugate “truth”. Illuminating.
SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS Trailer (by pulsefilmsltd)
Already choked up. Give it.
Because of course Japan has this.Secret shoe polishing bar in Japan.
*a good friend sent them to me & no I am not telling you where for fear of him taking all my shoes (yes he his the same size)
Seriously drinks on me get your cap toes and double monks and go…
(via charleshenry)
Look at these married parents raising the bar on the rest of us.
