Archive for January, 2011
President Obama to Introduce More Hopenchange with a New Chief of Staff
Whatever pretense President Obama might have made of an administration free of shadowy special interests and politics as usual (like how I worked those catch-phrases in there?) have flown away like doves at an Olympic Opening Ceremony. Well, it’s more like they tried to fly away, then burst into flame and rained down on horrified [...]
For State Republicans, Budgets Had Better Be Job One
If I didn’t know that Reuters was a respectable, objective, non-biased news agency, I’d say there was a distinct undercurrent of sorrow in this lede. Legislators in U.S. states who are returning to work this month or entering office for the first time expect to spend much of the new year pinching pennies. According to [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Back to the Grind Monday Edition
Okay, everyone, enough end of the year shirking. Back to work! Blogging will be light for me on Mondays and Wednesdays this month. I’ve been roped into one of those “Other Duties as Assigned” things at work, which is going to suck up pretty much my entire day, including any break times. I won’t be [...]
Hey, Small Business Owners. Better Brace for that Death Tax Compromise.
When the most recent tax deal passed, one of the great triumphs Republicans claimed was that the “death tax” would be only 35 percent on estates of more than 5 million dollars. The Democrats wanted a rate of 55 percent and a much lower exemption. What wasn’t widely reported by either Republicans or Democrats was [...]
White House: Let Us Spend More Money Or The Economy Gets It!
If you listen very closely, you can hear the administration’s utter desperation. The top White House economic adviser on Sunday warned against what he called “playing chicken” with the need to raise the nation’s debt ceiling. Austan Goolsbee, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said on ABC’s “This Week” that refusing to [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Lesbian Swan Sunday Edition
For reasons I can’t quite comprehend, the movie The Black Swan is the talk of the theaters. I don’t understand why an artsy film about a neurotic, borderline-anorexic ballet dancer should cause such a stir, even if it does include Natalie Portman naked and in a lesbian love scene. Then again, I only watch two [...]
I Don’t Know About “Important”, but Vorlons and Shadows Make for Great Television
Space.com is running a poll asking reader which science-fiction series is “the most important…story ever told”. They’ve given three choices and, if you are at all a fan of the genre, you can pretty much guess what they are: Star Trek, Star Wars, and Doctor Who. I honestly don’t know that I’d consider any television [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs — Winter Classic Saturday Edition
If you follow me on Twitter or listen to The Delivery, you know I’m a hockey fan. One of the events I’ve come to enjoy during the season is the the NHL Winter Classic, where two teams meet outdoors in the cold surrounded by tens of thousands of hockey-heads. This year’s game (hyped very well [...]
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