Time off survey

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Thursday May 17, 2007 · 7:30 AM PDT

2007/05/17 · 07:30

I was intrigued by this discussion comparing GOVERNMENT MANDATED paid time off for (I assume) full time workers. Obviously, we have no such thing. Just as obviously, at least some full-time workers in the U.S. do have paid time off. Some of us (including me) even have as much time off as the Europeans (37 days, thanks very much!), but perhaps that's no coindicence since the company I work for is based in the Netherlands. So anyway, with the usual caveats, and as we head into Memorial Day and "vacation season" I'm posting a poll.

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97 votes Show Results

How many days of paid leave (including paid holidays) do you receive annually?

97 votes Vote Now!

How many days of paid leave (including paid holidays) do you receive annually?

I am employed full-time and have 0 days paid leave

9 votes

I am employed full-time and have 1-10 days paid leave

1 vote

I am employed full-time and have 11-15 days paid leave

17 votes

I am employed full-time and have 16-20 days paid leave

11 votes

I am employed full-time and have 21-25 days paid leave

9 votes

I am employed full-time and have 26-30 days paid leave

14 votes

I am employed full-time and have 31 or more days paid leave

15 votes

I am employed part-time and have 0 days paid leave

3 votes

I am employed part-time and have 1-10 days paid leave

1 vote

I am employed part-time and have 11-20 days paid leave

3 votes

I am employed part time and have 21-30 days paid leave

1 vote

I am employed part time and have 31 or more days paid leave

3 votes

I am not employed

10 votes

Rudy's pro-choice now, again

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Thursday May 10, 2007 · 6:30 AM PDT

2007/05/10 · 06:30

I saw this tid-bit in the New York Times today. So, after being confronted with his past contributions to planned parenthood and looking at the primary schedule, and taking some heat for his performance during the debate, Giuliani is making it official--he's pro-choice again.

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Tuesday May 01, 2007 · 10:13 AM PDT

2007/05/01 · 10:13

I've noticed as I read various Dem primary threads that certain usual suspects show up time after time, rather obviously supporting one candidate or another. This can be interesting information to note when interacting with these people, as one can otherwise find oneself banging one's head against a wall trying to "convert" someone who isn't convertible, or extra insight into why someone is constantly bashing a particular candidate. So, as an exercise in full disclosure...if you are supporting, working for, giving money exclusively to, or just like to spout your mouth off about a particular candidate or other, come forward. I'm too lazy to make a handy pocket guide matching names with candidates, but at least this is an attempt to keep track.

If you support ONE currently running candidate, name the candidate. If you are undecided, hate them all, waiting for Gore, etc. this is not your spot.

Whither gun control?

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Friday April 20, 2007 · 7:40 AM PDT

2007/04/20 · 07:40

It seemed almost inevitable in the wake of the VT shootings that the topic of gun control would emerge again. Some have said that a tragedy of this sort should not be an excuse for debating politics and policies, some of which have only a tangential relationship to the situation at hand. And yet such a debate HAS emerged, and on a topic that many had considered "settled". So let's put aside that murderous spree killings on campuses are quite rare and THUS sensational and newsworthy, but not a great danger to most people statistically. What is the state of "gun control" and a gun control movement in this country?

JMS

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Friday December 01, 2006 · 11:51 AM PST

2006/12/01 · 11:51

It's a slow day for me, so I've been amused by the proliferation of "Ridiculous and Dangerous" Diaries. I think we've hit critical mass. Time to take the poll.

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My favorite "Ridiculousness and Danger" diary is:

62 votes Vote Now!

My favorite "Ridiculousness and Danger" diary is:

Dave Sirota's original

9 votes

3 votes

1 vote

C (the Lincoln one)

20 votes

2 votes

yours

3 votes

don't we have something to complain to Pelosi about?

4 votes

PIE

20 votes

With friends like these...or Jacob Weisberg is an ass

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Thursday August 10, 2006 · 5:54 AM PDT

2006/08/10 · 05:54

I admit it. I read Slate. I enjoy the pseudo-intellectual latte-swilling slightly left of center viewpoint. So I clicked on it this morning to see that Jacob Weisberg (Slate's current editor) has struck again. A few months ago I saw him extolling the virtues of John McCain and I rolled my eyes, but he's since been fairly quiet. Then this piece of garbage... Read More

U.S. as racial microcosm

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Wednesday May 24, 2006 · 9:38 AM PDT

2006/05/24 · 09:38

It seems that Armando's challenge has provoked quite a response lasting over several days. Good! I have only been skimming, and in fact not reading at some days so forgive me if this point was made somewhere in the thousands of comments that have since come up. I have a lot to say about the roles of "white liberals", "minorities", "bigots" and everyone in between, but I've said it before, and other people have probably said it better. So here's a point that seems to me to be underexplored, though fairly obvious. Most of our discussion has centered on the U.S. and the problems of race in the U.S.--but doesn't it seem that the relative stature of different "races" in the U.S. quite exactly mirrors the stature of those races in the larger global community? Read More

It's hard to change parties--science says so

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Tuesday January 24, 2006 · 6:14 AM PST

2006/01/24 · 06:14

Here's a nifty article in today's ScienceTimes. Committed supporters of Bush and Kerry were put into MRIs and shown doctored documents where either man was depicted making statements contrary to expected. When faced with the "disappointing" documents, the men ended up "purging" the information, and in fact got an emotional charge from doing so. The "reasoning" portions of the brain remained quiet. Read More

Democrats are the minority party

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Wednesday June 08, 2005 · 12:48 PM PDT

2005/06/08 · 12:48

I've been thinking about this, partly in response to Chris' diary, and also partly in response to an exchange I saw recently on TAPPED between Matt Yglesias, who wondered if race is still the issue driving whites away from the Democratic party and Garance Franke-Ruta, who was looking at the voting patterns of single women, white men, and white women, and why white women have turned away from the party, returned, and turned away again. She saw it as a matter of "security" (I think they're both somewhat right incidentally). But this leads to the question of who, or what, is the Democratic party? Read More

Vehicle Poll Redux

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Friday April 01, 2005 · 6:28 AM PST

2005/04/01 · 06:28

A while back, when I was doing demographic polls (before I ran out of ideas, and before people ran around bashing the very idea of "demographics"), one of the liveliest polls I did concerned the vehicles people drove.

Well, I guess it's been sort of a slow news week or something, because here's the New York Times, weighing in on the vehicles Republicans and Democrats drive.

Short version. Democrats drive foreign cars and minivans, Republicans drive domestic trucks and SUVs.

Now it isn't all quite that simple, as a diary from earlier this week made clear. Democratic big wigs must, for political reasons, be seen driving and being driven in union made American cars. But for those of us who don't have political obligations, I offer this poll. (When considering if something is foreign or domestic, use the traditional country of origin of the brand name. Do not count where the car was produced, or various mergers and acquisitions--most car buyers don't)

Sociopaths among us

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Wednesday March 23, 2005 · 12:23 PM PST

2005/03/23 · 12:23

Here's a "science" story in Salon (free registration) that got me thinking. The author of the book the Sociopath Next Door asserts that 4% of the population are sociopaths, meaning they have no conscience. While only a small number of these peoples break laws or are violent, they cause destruction in society in other ways. She also comes to the 4% number by assuming that half of sociopaths are women. Read More

Bullying PBS--time to bash more cartoons

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Wednesday January 26, 2005 · 6:22 AM PST

2005/01/26 · 06:22

JamesB3 noted in his diary last night that Margaret Spellings, Bush's new education secretary, was putting pressure on PBS to pull an episode of "Postcards from Buster" (an "Arthur" spin-off). Read More

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Time off survey

Rudy's pro-choice now, again

Who's your candidate?

Whither gun control?

Most Ridiculous and Most Dangerous (w/poll)

With friends like these...or Jacob Weisberg is an ass

U.S. as racial microcosm

It's hard to change parties--science says so

Democrats are the minority party

Vehicle Poll Redux

Sociopaths among us

Bullying PBS--time to bash more cartoons