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The big “compromise” on the debt ceiling and the national debt, as announced by a “bipartisan” group of six seems to involve taking away the mortgage interest deduction, the tax break on your IRA and the tax break on health care costs. Hmmm… ok, let’s see how they plan to make this all equitable so that the richest 2% for whom those items aren’t a splashed pebble in their money pool will give up something too. Oh wait. They won’t. In fact, under the guise of making up to the middle class for removing tax breaks, this plan will lower

Went to the Tap Root Cafe to see Whitekeys’ Whale Fat Follies. Wow. How I’ve missed him. And I didn’t realize it until that music started and I was suddenly happy again. Way to go, Whitekeys! You haven’t lost it. In fact, you’ve just gotten better with age.

I had five people stay at my house recently. It’s a big house. Yet it felt very full. And I wondered how our parents and grandparents lived in such large numbers in such small spaces as the houses and apartments of the past used to be. Then I remembered reading Little Women and how Jo would go up to the garret and eat apples and read. Once I realized that garrett was an impressive word for attic, I thought how isolating that must have been. And now I understand why she did that. It was the only place to get

The news story said the the new bishop of Philadelphia was picked because he was very conservative and extremely outspoken and it was a signal that the Vatican planned to play a big role in the moral issues of the day. Hmmm… so how come I’ve heard nothing from the pulpits about politicians raping the poorest of the poor through cuts to programs that barely give them a minimal quality of life while promoting even more money for the richest two percent in this country. How is that not immoral? How can they think that Jesus would not have had

I think people from all political stripes agree that America needs to get its financial house in order. The breakdown in finding a solution stems from those who think that raising taxes on the richest two percent of this country is immoral but that balancing the budget on the back of grandma and her Medicare is not. They are opposed by those who feel raising taxes on the upper two percent is very moral while balancing the budget on grandma’s back isn’t.

The conservative position seems to be they will not raise taxes on the top two percent because they

Why is it I never notice how messy my house is or how many stains are on the rug or how much bird seed is wedged in strange places until I have company coming and then it’s way too late to really do anything about it except blame the birds?

Sarah Palin’s movie opened to almost completely empty theaters this past weekend. If that doesn’t make you feel as though there is hope for taste and common sense in America, then nothing ever will.

On the other hand, how to explain Michelle Bachman except to say that to be a female Republican candidate with party support, you have to be both pretty and empty headed so you don’t threaten the manhood of male Republicans.

It is the day of calm before the storm. Tomorrow the summer company descends. For the next month my birds will think they died and went to hell because I will not be here all day waiting on them hand and foot. It shakes up their world view in which they occupy the center and I travel the periphery anticipating their every want and need.

It’s actually kind of fun to watch in its own perverse way.

I was in the left hand turn lane. A truck on the road in front of me got their green arrow first and started turning into the lane next to me that was for traffic going in the opposite direction. But this young lady was apparently busy with other things as she turned and couldn’t be bothered to keep her eyes on the road. In fact, she leaned down below her dashboard as she turned so you couldn’t even tell anyone was driving. So she turned straight into me. All I could see was this big truck coming at me

Living in Alaska means my Newsweek subscription just arrived yesterday after most of the rest of the nation had time to ogle over its cover of the lovely Sarah, breasts thrust forward, head thrown back… my god, Marilyn Monroe would have been proud to pose that way. And honestly, the more I watch the dysfunction that is our US Congress and President working “together” to solve our national problems, the more I think that maybe having a pretty, if empty headed, piece of froth in the White House wouldn’t be all that bad. She could keep us amused while the