Well, it appears that the government shutdown has been averted, at least for the moment. That’s hardly cause for celebration, though, as not only is the final deal still being written up and passed, but we’re also never truly out of the water on funding the government these days either. Put aside deficits, debts, and…
…but I’ll be damned if they didn’t cause it to boil over. I’m talking, of course, of the mass demonstrations against the budget bill that Governor Scott Walker (a Republican), and the majorities in the Wisconsin State Legislature (both also Republican) have been trying to ram through for the past month. You know, the one…
Remember the guy pictured below? I’m sure you do; Senator Bernie Sanders (Independent – Vermont), after all, was the one that did the 8+ hour filibuster of the tax cut deal a few weeks ago. Whether you agree or disagree with his position, you have to admit that there was something great about his effort;…
As I mentioned in the announcement right before this post, there’ll be many changes coming in the next several days. I hope to make the process as seamless as possible, but I also like getting down and dirty with the code and also somehow doing things the hard way. Anyway, this is most likely the…
For those of you who know me, I don’t listen to pop music, hip hop/R&B, or anything really mainstream for that matter; I prefer classical music and classic rock, with some very obscure sub-genres thrown in there and whatnot. Therefore, I’m not sure what’s more surprising: me discussing Lady Gaga, or the fact that she…
Well here we go: as Congress goes to its month-long August recess, we have a full slate of primaries and other developments in the midterm election races to keep us engaged in politics. This Tuesday, the August primaries began in earnest with three states choosing their general election matches. Now, I could just give you…
Ah, another Congressional recess without addressing the unemployment benefits crisis. According to the Huffington Post’s count, it’s now been 37 days since the impending specter of that final benefit check was hung over the collective heads of the millions of unemployed Americans. I hate to say it, but it doesn’t look like it will be…
A brief note before jumping into this week’s post: I love writing the longer posts, though they take so much time to do the way I would like to do them that one or two of them a week is about all I could do with the longer ones. Therefore, I will be putting more…
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