The FICA rate is 7.65%: 6.2% for SS (up to $128,400 of wages) and 1.45% for Medicare (uncapped). Social Security is ostensibly paid to an individual for decades; we’re talking about funding a program that pays for 6-12 weeks.

That’s interesting, because child bonding is a covered reason under the FMLA. Her own disability is typically covered for 6-8 weeks (standard for natural/c-section), and the remaining time can be taken for bonding, which usually just requires proof that you’re the parent of the child. I wonder if her employer was just…

Ostensibly, they would have job protection via the FMLA. The issue there is that FMLA only applies to employers with 50+ lives; if they made it applicable to all workers, then you’ve potentially got something. It depends on if the paid element is feasible or stupid. 

Yeah, I guess the Clements play was unquestionable to me. What Collinsworth called losing control of the football just looked like he had it trapped against his body. By the time it moved (still trapped against his body), he had gotten two feet down, hence it’s a score. I suppose it was more the broadcasters trying to…

What should happen is that there is a 6-8 week disability period, with a [x] week bonding period. That completely flips the impact, making it much better for new moms, while still providing dads time to take leave when the baby (and the mom) needs it the most.

I know Republicans will never buy into it, but there should be a program funded via payroll tax, like FICA. Given the duration (let’s say, 6 weeks vs. [x] years), and that it only applies to new moms and dads, the cost would be dirt cheap if the risk pool was the entire working population. New York’s new program…

Yeah, it absolutely sucks. I thought the calls (and no-calls) last night were exactly what the NFL needed. I agreed with every decision they made, whether to let them play or call a foul. I can say, safely, that didn’t happen in any other game I watched this year.

One of the things I really like about Romo in the booth is that he says what he’s thinking. I feel like if he’d been calling the game, you’d have gotten, “Now, Al, c’mon. HOW IS THAT ANYTHING OTHER THAN A CATCH?” And he would have been right.

As a Pats fan, I really wanted both of these to look dicey on replay. As a human being with functioning eyes and brain, both of them were unquestionably catches. The broadcasting crew seemed to want to create drama, but (and this is especially true with the Ertz play), those plays resulted in catches by any measure.…

I get that vigilante justice is wrong, etc. I do. But if someone had molested my child, I don’t know that I could keep from at least making a run at the guy; I can’t imagine what it’s like to have three daughters molested by ONE guy, who also happened to do this to 150+ other girls.

I don’t need to look up Midre Cummings!

I’d argue they have similar physiques, and the laser is a question mark.

For whatever reason, I really liked Lou as a player. Kids always glom on to random players to like, and he was, to me, Nomar’s double-play buddy.

Nunes.

So, he’s Goldfinger.

I had the displeasure of listening to about 15 second of Kirk and Callahan today. They were screaming with a third person - I don’t know who was in which corner, but it was 2v1 - about how Boston sports radio is better than every other cities’ sports radio.

Holley does do the contrarian thing too much, but he’s a legit sportswriter who I enjoy listening to. I don’t notice Dale’s Bruins takes because I’m not a hockey guy (I tune out), but they work well together and don’t appear to be terrible humans.

WEEI really just needs to let Dale and Holley just do the whole day. It takes a special kind of moron to insult - not just a child of a guest - but the child of your QB who’s been to 8 Super Bowls. Maybe just say, “HEY CUTE KID :D!” next time.

“Clearly you are attempting to be humerus in your description of The President of the United States.”

It’ll be a real shock when we’re all wearing cardigans and socks with sandals in 2020.