I wrote this in May 2012, and looking at it again, reminds me how little things have changed regarding the Republicans in Congress. Who needs to write another blog when nothing has changed? This image remains as true today as it did a year and a half ago, when the GOP was once again threatening to shut down Congress.

I still believe this sums up of the current state of affairs. Last month year the Washington Post ran an article in the opinion section titled: Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem.
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73 comments (Latest Comment: 09/27/2013 21:19:12 by Mondobubba)

Ted cruz is still doing his fake fillibuster.... and everyone is paying attention. The media is eating it up like candy.
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75 comments (Latest Comment: 09/25/2013 23:58:08 by Raine)

Just over a month ago I wrote a blog about how Germany was starting to shut down fossil-fueled power plants because they were no longer cost-effective, compared to solar and wind. I pointed out all the subsidies and tax breaks that coal and oil get. A new study is showing that we are seeing the same reduction in costs here in the U.S., much sooner than expected:
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94 comments (Latest Comment: 09/23/2013 20:18:35 by Mondobubba)

Good Morning.

We're off for a busy Saturday in a few minutes. It's "Town Day" here in Waltham, so we'll have a Common full of crafts, food, activities, politicians...and Cub Scout recruiting. Later this afternoon, Javi has a road game, so we'll be travelling to nearby Reading to watch him kick a ball around the pitch.

But before I head for all that, I wanted to take a brief run through a couple of vexing problems facing our nation and the world today. As it turns out, I've been listening to some right-wing talk radio recently, and I accidentally read parts of the Boston Herald earlier this week whilst lining a small mammal's cage with it. But I digress.
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3 comments (Latest Comment: 09/21/2013 14:35:22 by Raine)

Stereotyping is one of those things that is so easy to recognize in others, and so easy to miss in yourself. It's a shorthand way to dismiss a large group of people based on some shared characteristic by assuming some other shared characteristic. I think about how ignorant this is every time I hear some generalization about "inside the beltway" thinking. For the uninitiated, the "beltway" is I-495 that circles Washington, DC as well as parts of Virginia and Maryland.

Technically, I live inside the beltway, even though I live in Virginia. This part of Virginia is also called NoVa (for northern VA) because it is as different from southern Virginia as DC is. Actually, the part I'm in was once part of the original square of DC before it was returned to Virginia.
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93 comments (Latest Comment: 09/19/2013 21:38:00 by livingonli)