Scattered things...

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• I remain skeptical of quite a few things that Hillary Clinton stands for - increased censorship is pretty much always wrong, and she's too willing to roll over and find the "middle ground" between the centrist position and the loony right - but linking the federal minimum wage to the congressional wage is a stroke of genius.
• 12 catches of 5 clubs. And I could count them myself instead of having someone else tell me how many I got. That was most pleasing.
• Conference submission date is May 16th. Work work work. Then I am done with the research project that is turning out to be kind of orthogonal to the research I want to do. Then it's all area exam all the time. Work work work. Then the term is over.
• And this summer I am teaching "Intro to Programming" in Python in a 4-week intensive (7/24-8/16). Using John Zelle's book based on the advice of several people. I am psyched. The rest of the summer is going to be spent biking and hanging out and reading and recovering from a relatively rough year of grad school.

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Of course it's a stunt, but...

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Congressional wages increase with inflation every year as part of a congressional wage bill passed in the 1940s. Tying the minimum wage to inflation has been shot down in the past, but it's much harder to come across as a good guy when you are voting to be able to increase your own salary while keeping poor people poor. It's all about making people ashamed to vote against a bill. My only worry is that the mandated increases to the min. wage will shoot down the bill. I'd prefer a straight-up tying of one to the other.