those with a smart phone are checking their work e-mail while in bed and 69% won t go to sleep without checking their work e-mail and more than half are checking while on family outing and 38% check at the dinner table. that s a big no-no in our house. almost half said they have no choice but to stay connected during the off hours because the customers demand it. in new york the numbers are much, much higher. i would imagine, yes. age-old question. what do you want to be when you grow up? they will now test that in kindergarteners? a new digital tool to test academic and behavioral schools will target kids in consistenter garden and they developed the act exam and started testing in the fall and could be available to schools from 2014. what this is trying to do is track students s career interest
them, as much as you want me to. they need to know who knew at department of justice, who okayed this, did it reach the highest level. i don t blame them getting frustrated. how many hearings have they had? they wasted our money, our time and people died. greg: what is funny is holder said the e-mails that use the phrase fast and furious do not refer to the gun walking operation fast and furious. so now we finally know he s actually an avid fan of vin diesel and who can blame him. vin diesel is dreamy. but keep it out of your work e-mail, holder. eric: move on. literally, across the street, senators from both parties were voicing serious concern over leaks from the obama administration. take a listen. not only have leaks occurred but there has been a cascade of leaks coming out of the intelligence community to put lives in danger. and it infringes upon the ability of the intelligence community to do their job.
as muppets. not like the ones on your screen though. the firm is scanning its internal e-mails searching, searching for that word and we have our most british correspondent we could find, ashley webster, reporting from the fox business network. we re not talking about fraggle rock, we re not talking about that when we say muppets. i ve been called a muppet. etf all been called a muppet. that goldman bloke through a wobbly. got into a strop and after barney left everybody gob smocked. jenna: that is not even english. that english. it is. name-calling goes there is lot worse than being called a muppet, believe me in the u.k. it means being an idiot and being stupid as opposed to kermit the frog or miss piggy. language differences aside it raises questions about the work e-mail and company image. investment bank goldman sachs is now scanning its internal e-mails, looking for the term muppet that is
not just the retail employees. we re also finding folks tethered to blackberries and their smartphones are checking their work e-mail on thanksgiving day. people are working from home. nothing ever sort of shuts off these days. some folks are saying enough is enough. we need to take back thanksgiving and respect the bird. totally. it seems wrong, frankly. how about if we look at the cost of a turkey dinner with the trimmings. it s about $49.20 a person. 13% higher than in previous years. how is asking more people to shop helping that situation? even if you do want to celebrate thanksgiving and sort of take that time out with your family, it will cost you more than it has before. one of the things that s driving up the cost of a thanksgiving meal is the cost of the bird itself. turkey prices are nearing the record high of $1.67 per pound for a frozen turkey. that s something that will be hitting people right inside their wallets during a time when we re all trying to save money and
including those fighting wars in iraq and afghanistan will not be paid on time. joining me now, washington post columnist and msnbc contributor ezra klein. thanks for joining us, ezra. i have so many questions about this. what i don t get, actually, how do you pay the employees who you re calling essential? where does that money come from to pay them if the whole thing has been shut down? it actually doesn t arrive for a while. those employees do not get paid unless after the shutdown ends a bill is passed giving them backpay. what those employees are allowed to do is work. for a normal federal employee, you re not allowed to work. by statute, do you actually have to shut down government servers to prevent a federal employee on shutdown from logging in and checking work e-mail, which would mean he s doing work while on shutdown? shutdowns get crazy and end up being wildly costly and inefficient for everybody involved. so what happens to the big paychecks, the president, the