I read John F. Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage back in high school for a class assignment. At the time, as a freshman way more into hair metal, comic books, and crushing on girls without talking to them, it was not my favorite assignment. I found it pretty dry and dull, though I appreciated what it […]

Actually, I totally am. We ALL are. > photo from RFP

Not much to be said about my first week of year-end leave burn; got a handful of things done around the house, took about ten miles of walk with the dog, nursed the lovely spouse through a sinus infection, and got my teeth cleaned. But mostly, though? I played some video games, read a couple […]

Another week, more gossip, stress, bullshit, “senior officials” dropping dubious tips in the press, and no real movement. This is my world now. The big story of the week, however, the absolute electoral blowout here and elsewhere, which (along with hearing that a couple of my favorite co-workers took advantage of the current business to […]

Still here, still sucks. Really trying to not read the news so much; just a quick survey of the morning headlines on Playbook and double-checking in the evening to confirm that the Senate votes went the same way they did the day before. Otherwise, I’ve got a ton of household projects done, took a couple […]

It’s coming folks.   77 million voters fucked around; now they’re going to find out. While the rumors of the Port of Seattle being completely empty this week were perhaps somewhat overblown, shipments of products from China and other Asian countries to the United States are slowing down rapidly thanks to those tariffs, and pretty […]

Some relatively big events over the past seven days. Cory Booker’s historic, record-breaking (don’t* call it a) Filibuster on Tuesday. Departments dropping DeRP 2.0. Imposing tariffs on penguins. markets falling, along with our retirement accounts. And me, on Wednesday, falling and landing flat on my back. Several of these things hit personally, though one in […]

I’m frankly tired of being angry and afraid. The stress of this whole < gestures widely toward this general overall situation > is certainly still there, and festering, but I suspect I’ve just become inured to the constant pressure of all these stressors. It’s not quite numbness, but it’s getting there. I’d like to think […]

One more week down, and the work slog continues, in part because Schumer indeed did fold (though it remains to be seen if he’s as capable of 4-D chess as the red hats claim TFG is), and the shutdown was put off, at least until at some point in the summer when the debt ceiling […]

Staring down another Friday, another shutdown threat, and this one’s even more loaded than usual. The seven month(!) continuing resolution that passed the House earlier this week is total hot garbage, and calling it “clean” is even more of a fiction than usual, as it cuts all kinds of funding for necessary services, and perhaps […]