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It's postal news time again!

Come Oct. 31st, there's going to be a circus centered on the USPS. To understand why, you only need to know a few things.

• The post office hasn't received tax funding since the mid-eighties.
  
• With the exception of 2009, the post office has remained solvent since then.
  
• The post office is a non-profit agency. When profit ( Read more... )

I could tell you about work but it's been the same as it has been lately.

No, let me tell you how much I think Game of Thrones sucks. I wanted to like it. I really wanted to like it. Pseudo medieval fantasy world (possibly with dragons (eventually)), c'mon! But, no, I think it's lame. First of all, it's one of those plodding doom and gloom ( Read more... )

It always bemuses me when people advocate privatizing the postal service. Usually, what they mean is that it shouldn't receive gov't funding. It hasn't since 1983. Sometimes they mean it should be internally managed. With the exception of congressional over-sight, it is. Except for that lingering detail, it already is privatized ( Read more... )

*snort* Holidays. Relentless overtime followed by a period of mind-numbing boredom. Such a thrill ( Read more... )

Pro-family groups concerned with dropping marriage rates might want to examine state tax laws to see if they impose a marriage penalty on childless working couples. Due to the steady decline of employer supplied benefits, both halves of the couple need to work to compensate for the increased expense of paying for health care and retirement. A lot ( Read more... )

You know what bugs me about fiction? The way people like to categorize Romance as somehow separate from Drama. When you use capital letters like that, it denotes a genre, and I don't contest that, but I'll to that in a minute. All stories are about how something happens and why ( Read more... )

Keith urged me to just go ahead and post this before making waffles. It goes something like: O Rly, SD finally got suspended for unrepentant copyright violations? Because, y'know, it is when you're not couching it as a structured parody or writing an essay about the source material.... Anyway, I'm officially a member but I haven't posted in ages, ( Read more... )

Yep. I've taken my benadryl, which means we're in for a good ol' fandom rant ( Read more... )

Oh, hey, I only fell down three times today. Not that I didn't pull or strain quite a few muscles in the process of not-falling whenever I slipped. Which was frequently. I should have brought my skates. Of course, two of the falls don't really count since I caught myself in a crouch. But the first time was looney tunes spectacular. I was carefully ( Read more... )