I was on the road when I originally made this post. My laptop battery was literally within seconds of failing when I uploaded the two songs. I may or may not have been in a strip mall parking lot at about midnight pirating a certain well-known, Northwestern-based coffee bean company’s wi-fi to get]]><![CDATA[ it done. […]
Category: domestic relations
WE ALL GONNA DIE!!
Look, I’m horrible with my own money. Nation-state budgets are preposterously complex. Debt is a real and permissible leveraging tool for towering economies. All the same there is surely some balance. Paul Ryan (R) has proposed one such compromise. He and his confederates see this impasse as a fiscal and ideological “cause” and not simply […]
Hitting the Snooze
President Obama spoke yesterday regarding his goal to reduce our reliance on imported oil by a third, in the coming decade. The vision is largely predicated on increased domestic drilling and production. As anyone would concede, the concept is a stop gap. It does not, in fact, improve our ability to separate from the very […]
Of Public Concern
The Supreme Court returned an 8 to 1 decision today, in Snyder v. Phelps, C.A. No. 09-751 (March 2, 2011), which held that members of the Westboro Baptist Church had the constitutional right to picket military funerals to express views of “public concern.” Public concern is a term of art used to describe highly protected […]
Election Special Wednesday
Phew. Long flight home today. Time with the wife and kids. Some ESPN 30 for 30. Full election coverage late into the night. Then pounded out some less than perfect ipoetry. Themes include my coverage of the coverage, the blissful absurdity of the coverage, balance of power in the bicameral duplex (I think that’s redundant), […]
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