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26 June 2007
Woot!
Got a check for $800+ from the IRS. Getting any mail from the IRS makes me a little nervous, but I guess it was worth it. Apparently when I paid all my extra taxes on April 15th, I paid a little too much. Paying too much is certainly not what I was aiming for.
Yeah, that tax code could really use some simplifying.
Posted by Evan @ 06/26/07 06:37 PM | Comments (0)
One, Two, Three
Clay Robison -- Austin Bureau Chief and weekly leftish opinion scribe -- asserts:
[Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst] had a better session than Gov. Rick Perry or Speaker Tom Craddick, but so did just about everybody else at the Capitol.
What say you, dear readers? Rank the Big 3 ordinally*, based on this Session.
* Word choice inspired by my father, who objected by telephone to "conclusory," claiming that it sounded pretentious.
Posted by Evan @ 06/26/07 12:13 PM | Comments (1)
21 June 2007
Who does Bloomberg hurt?
Maybe I haven't been paying attention to the conventional wisdom (no loss there), but I thought the CW was that a Bloomberg presidential candidacy would hurt Democrats. Ambinder today claims the CW is now that Bloomberg hurts the GOP more. I've long argued (even on the blog) that Bloomberg hurts the GOP more. [It matters, of course, how Bloomberg runs and I have my own assumptions on that, which is part of why I feel the way I do.]
Well, now we have data. I may comment on it, as this is hardly conclusory. But the data lends a little support.
Noteworthy: the Texas results, and what can be extrapolated.
Posted by Evan @ 06/21/07 01:46 PM | Comments (0)
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No time to post recently. Instead I'll point you to Professors R Squared, who have had lots of good stuff recently.
They need to have more posts on their main page though!
Posted by Evan @ 06/21/07 01:36 PM | Comments (0)
15 June 2007
She does like to talk about it
There are certain things in life I talk about doing that I haven't done. So I can't be too critical of our senior senator. Still, she does like to talk about running for governor:
Speaking at a gathering Wednesday of Texas chapters of Associated Builders and Contractors, Ms. Hutchison, a Republican, hinted she might run for governor in 2010.But will she? Although she has long been the most popular politician in the state, it remains to be seen if she can get through the GOP primary. I think she's likely to be able to, but it's no sure thing.The builders, unhappy with the current crop of declared GOP candidates for president, asked Ms. Hutchison what might induce her to run for that office. Her response was prompt.
"Nothing," she said to laughter from the crowd.
But her next musing was greeted by a resounding round of applause. "I might come home to Texas and run for governor," she said.
Isn't it generally considered bad form in the veepstakes to say that you'd accept?Ms. Hutchison also has said she would probably accept an offer to seek the vice presidency, if one were extended.
Posted by Evan @ 06/15/07 01:02 PM | Comments (0)
14 June 2007
Please don't primary me!
Four endorsements for Bill Richardson:
Think the demographics of Gene Green's east side Houston district have anything to do with it?Four: Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA), Rep. Solomon Ortiz (D-TX), Rep. Gene Green (D-TX) and Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-TX).
The link is courtesy of Marc Ambinder. I said something nice a few weeks back about his work for the Hotline's blog and almost immediately thereafter he disappeared for a week or two. Now he's back with an eponymous blog. Awesome. He does great work.
Posted by Evan @ 06/14/07 07:56 PM | Comments (0)
Texas Monthly's Ten Best and Ten Worst Legislators
Paul Burka and Patti Kilday Hart released their list of the best and worst legislators.
The full story is available for the next 24 hours online.
Quick thought: it was nice of Burka and Hart to put Dan Patrick on their worst list. Wouldn't it have hurt him if they hadn't? Imagine if they'd put him on their best list.
Posted by Evan @ 06/14/07 02:59 PM | Comments (0)
Definitely time for a new job
Note: I wrote this post last week, but didn't publish it. Since I wrote this post, my employer has tried to staff me on a project for Hugo Chavez's company. I said no; despite the counsel of friends who think I should think about the ramifications. I had already turned down a project for Hugo six months ago, which the staffing coordinator has very much held against me and therefore not given me good projects. It looks there will definitely be quite negative repercussions from my decision.
Those of you who know me know that I'm not too happy with my consulting job. They haven't treated me poorly, but the company doesn't have enough work to go around right now and I'm getting bored of doing nothing. If I were to have done it over again, I would've made it a point to work for one of the big 3 (Bain, BCG, McKinsey) consulting companies, rather than one of the mid-level companies like the one I work for. Granted, when I started here, the company had explosive growth, so I figured it was a good place to go. I'd have the chance to get promoted faster than at McKinsey.
So what am I going to do instead? I may stay in consulting, but I'm considering a career change. I like small companies -- particularly start-ups -- and really smart people. I like pressure, and I like intellectually stimulating work. The opportunity for quick promotion is greatly valued. I recently interviewed at a carbon trading start-up and made it to the final round. It sounded perfect; however, I really don't have the work background* they were looking for, so I wasn't that surprised when they chose someone else.
Or I may go jump to a campaign. There should be a few CD22 campaigns looking for folks. Or I may become a writer [professional blogger? -- ed. No....well unless someone pays me well! I'm thinking more magazine articles, books and novels]. Or I may go work in some kind of public affairs. Or I may just go trade natural gas futures. Who knows?
*It's amazing to me how risk-averse people are when it comes to hiring only those with the "right" work background and "right" major in college. I suppose that's a principal-agent problem -- employees doing the hiring won't be rewarded if they hire someone good, but it will hurt them if they hire someone bad -- but I'd have the opposite view if I were hiring. Look for raw brainpower and work ethic, and let them learn on the job.
Posted by Evan @ 06/14/07 12:12 AM | Comments (2)
13 June 2007
Lead on
Did Nancy Pelosi's flack write this?
Ed Gillespie, a high-dollar Washington lobbyist and long-time go-to guy for President Bush and the Republican Party, is replacing Dan Bartlett as White House counselor in the president's inner circle.Heckuva lead from Jennifer Loven at the AP.
I mean, not just leading with the fact that he's a lobbyist -- which also doesn't seem appropriate to me outside of a DNC press release -- but also adding the pejorative "high-dollar." Yikes.
She should try something like this: "Ed Gillespie, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, will join the inner circle of the Bush administration as a counselor to the president." Much better.
Posted by Evan @ 06/13/07 01:20 PM | Comments (0)
Bye bye Jacques
I'm fascinated by the remarks of House Foreign Affairs Chairman Tom Lantos:
Very interesting to me that we have a Democrat praising the new center-right governments of continental Europe. Or as Don Rumsfeld would say, "Old Europe.""I am so glad that the era of Jacques Chirac and Chancellor Schroeder in Germany is now gone," Lantos said to applause.
He said under the successors of Schroeder and Chirac, Angela Merkel in Germany and Nicolas Sarkozy in France, relations with the United States "will take a very positive turn."
Now perhaps Lantos can say something positive about our relationship with Colombia, instead of throwing our South American ally under the bus like Nancy Pelosi did.
Posted by Evan @ 06/13/07 01:05 PM | Comments (0)
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