President Obama rocks. First, I started getting $100 more per month for my unemployment insurance payments. Now, just today, I have been informed that my former employer now has to pay 65% of my premium, for the next 9 months. 65%. Since my payments have been $532, that's a truly massive relief.

There's some good news. The President has two favorite superheroes. One is Spiderman, which is fine, but the other is Batman. This, I believe, is very auspicious. Hey, maybe he is Batman ( Read more... )

I think I'm the only local person I know who planned to go to the Inauguration, and I'm so glad I went. The crowding and all was heavy, but not as bad as it could have been, and people were very cheerful with one another. When we got to the L'Enfant Plaza metro station and got off the train (headed for the National Mall), it took over an hour to ( Read more... )