category archive: politics

more idealistic, impractical ranting

Observing the bloody fray that is U.S. health care reform, Andrew is about as fed up as I am: “the way we write legislation is stupid,” he notes.
I couldn’t agree more. And tonight, it seems that the only means I have to make myself feel better about this smoking train wreck that is our government [...]

the national debt

There are many indicators of a healthy or troubled economy, but I never took economics (stupid, stupid, stupid!) so I’m not in a position to tell you much about them.
However, I got curious tonight about one of those indicators, the National Debt, and did some research. Here’s a quick look at what I found (data [...]

bitch goddess Katrina

It’s really bumming me out that the process of overcoming a massive tragedy like Hurricane Katrina and all the associated challenges has so quickly deteriorated into the kind of heated partisan rhetoric that characterizes… well, just about everything these days. Democrats and Republicans alike, nearly everyone holding office right now just looks like a blustering [...]