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I can hardly believe that the Republican party is so afraid of its own shadow string of recent failures Tea Party contingent that they have allowed the government to shut down rather than acknowledge the aforementioned string of recent failures ( Read more... )

• In the caf just now, I burned my hand when the cream of broccoli soup I was ladling into my bowl splashed out at me. In a fair and just world, that would make it zero-calorie.
• Cook's Illustrated has given top marks to Maxwell House Decaf Original Roast. Their #2 was my old standby (when I'm not working my way through some schmancier beans), ( Read more... )

Mississippi is voting on November 8th on whether to pass Amendment 26, the "Personhood Amendment". This amendment would grant fertilized eggs and fetuses personhood status.

Putting aside the contentious issue of abortion, this would effectively outlaw birth control and criminalize women who have miscarriages. This is not a good thing.

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In case anyone was confused about my last post (does anybody still read this thing?), on Friday night our fridge expired. It was making a horrible noise, then the noise stopped, and the normal fridge noise slowly grew quieter and quiter until it was totally silent. Having come close to buying a new one when the icemaker died a few months back, it ( Read more... )

In inflation-adjusted terms, annual US military spending has risen more than 70 percent since 2001.

More than 70%.

Yet people want to cut education, and medicare, and social security? While GE pays no tax, and big oil receives government subsidies?

Pennsylvania tax revenues are running an unexpected $500M surplus, yet the governor wants to ( Read more... )

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was this historic victory on health care!

Get your t-shirt here.

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I was pleasantly surprised by the State of the Union speech last night.

I was sadly unsurprised at the reluctance of the Republicans to show any support for things like, oh, taxing big banks to recoup bailout funds.

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These are the same people who keep insisting that the American people don't want healthcare reform, so that's why they are balking ( Read more... )