It's kind of amazing to me that people are going on about a government shutdown to the extent they are. Literally this same thing happened last time the budget came around, and then the debt ceiling. It's hardly even news anymore, kind of business as usual with all the disfunction ( Read more... )

With the Sarah Murgahan situation concluding, I just wanted to pop in and give my personal opinion. Obviously I have a fair amount of bias, just as a warning/disclaimer ( Read more... )

Even though it isn’t even 2012 yet, the media is in full election mode. Each broadcast is devoted to getting to know the candidates, or reporting new poll numbers, or dissecting how Candidate X’s move helped his campaign and why. In this frenzy of election (or, arguably, pre-election) fervor, sometimes individual issues get lost in the shuffle ( Read more... )

Since when did it become a bad thing not to blindly stick to the party line and vote for something you support even if it originated in the other party ( Read more... )

I've lost count of the number of times I've talked about it...

At any rate, newsbox_addict had an amazing article about the bill that actually passed, and what's in it. (That is an awesome community, BTW, and everyone should join it.) You can check it out there, or here at the original source ( Read more... )

Or, more accurately, with the message being delivered:

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Ok. Where even to BEGIN ( Read more... )

...a long letter. I hope you read it. Really. You being 1)congresspeople, not just from my own state but all over the US 2)pundits 3)the public at large. Anyone who'll listen. And really listen, not just read it, dismiss it as 1)some niave teenager's ramblings 2)weird Internet stuff 3)any combination thereof ( Read more... )