Who Needs Systematic Evidence When You Have Random Anecdotes?

Shorter Verbatim Glenn Reynolds: “I keep hearing about real-wage stagnation, but everyone I know who has a business complains that they can’t get enough decent help even when they raise pay, because people are always leaving for better jobs.” This a favorite Reynoldsism: “the fact that affluent professionals such as myself benefited from the Bush tax cuts means that everybody must have!” The latest post is kind of a B- performance, though–where’s the apocryphal cab driver explaining how Knoxville can’t find enough cabbies because everybody goes to spend five years at Wal-Mart and then retire to their solid gold houses? (Via alicublog.)