I've been kicking around in my head lately what the price of our behavior is going to be ( Read more... )

I made a comment on Digg today about the state California is in. Someone posted that analysts think that it will take California until 2014 to recover, and I replied that if we recovered that soon, I was going to be -really- surprised.

That got me to thinking -- what would be a way that California -could- recover itself? My thoughts are below:

( Fixing California, after the jump )

Well, the state has already burned through half its firefighting budget fighting the big fire down near LA. A lot of the problem is that they can't just put in a good sized firebreak and let it burn, because there's a ton of houses built by people with no common sense out in the middle of fire country that the firefighters have to try and save, ( Read more... )

No, not the wrestling ring. He and his deep, rough voice and slightly terrifying presence have been heading out in the the roughest territory possible -- Fox. He's had it out with Sean Hannity and Fox and Friends and he's frankly handing them their collective asses. He's got so many great quotes in the interview sessions that it's impossible to ( Read more... )

Thanks to allergy induced nausea (it has NOT been a good week... and it's not even Wednesday), I missed Obama's speech, and I'm catching the re-runs. I was gonna pass it up, since I knew basically what was in it, but I read some liveblogs, and it sounded like there was a lot happening ( Read more... )

Well, it's looking like maybamaybe the stimulus plan is going to get through, and the economists I've been reading are really unhappy with it. In fact, Paul Krugman is downright furious. (Read his blog for more on his problems with the deal. He has attacked Republicans for being complete assholes about the whole thing and whining about " ( Read more... )

Here we go! Biden's being sworn in. Keep refreshing this post for the liveblog.

( Liveblogging on! )

ETA POST: Hey, I just made a post linking to Daily Kos. Did a bit of research after, and worked out that indeed, one cannot believe all that one reads on the internets.

Still, post was awesome. Is here

Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States of America.

The world has changed forever. There is no going back.

I, for one, couldn't be happier.

(PS: SUCK IT FLORIDA! YOU DON'T GET TO MESS IT UP THIS TIME!)

Well, I did it. I did it and laughed all the way home from the polls ( Read more... )