Mom has determined that now is the time to go through 60 years of photo albums, winnow out the pictures to keep as representative, and scan them to disc. She’s gone through half of one album containing pictures beginning in roughly 1942. It’s a treat to look at hairstyles and cars from back then, but …
From a WSJ editorial gnashing its teeth about the budget proposal laid out yesterday: Republicans have an obligation to insist on a long and considerable debate on all of this, lest Americans discover in a year or two that they live in a very different country. Paul Gigot and his fellow editorialists are quite happy …
You are hearing and will continue to hear Congresspeople and Senators, mostly Republicans and a few Democrats, howling about “passing along debt to our grandchildren!” Since 1791 the US Government has had a national debt. It was $75,463,476.52 in that year. Every non-balanced budget has added to our national debt. George Washington’s grandchildren had debt …
My car battery lasted nearly seven years. I know this because it died yesterday, and when I managed to get the car down to Sears (always, always carry jumper cables in your trunk!) they looked up my customer record and told me I’d bought it from them in 2002. I guess I can’t complain too …
Update: Ryan’s blog is back up, and the discussion is here. Blurb: Locke’s fateful mission off the island as Jeremy Bentham is revealed. Ryan’s doing a server move, so no link right now. Jon’s take. It might be mixed in with Manny Ramirez news, so hunt.
What’s the Prez been up to? Check out NPR’s Obama Tracker. It shows the man’s activity by day. Don’t call him a slacker! via Kos.
If they’ve decided to go with the message Jindal just used in his response to President Obama’s Not-the-State-of-the-Union but it-might-as-well-have-been speech, they’re going to be in the wilderness a long long time. That was vintage Republicanism, going back to Goldwater in 1964. We all know how badly the GOP was beaten in that election.
Forget live-blogging the President’s speech, that’s so 2004. Live-Tweet it. You can find people doing just that by going to Twitter, looking at the bottom for “search,” clicking it and then typing #nsotu into the search box. You’ll get a page which looks like this. If you’re already following another Tweet conversation, try TweetGrid and …
Go look at the graphs Ezra Klein has in this post. They clearly show that Social Security has no financial problem going forward and that it’s health care costs which are ballooning out of control. The really good news is that the guy whose think tank produced the charts is giving the keynote at President …
I’m embarrassed by those of my fellow citizens who participated in this event, and I have some questions for them: Just what the hell impact would the state’s recognition of civil unions have on your marriage? Is yours so weak that it would dissolve upon the law’s ratification? If so, perhaps you should work on …