Work is winning

In the battle over time, work is winning.

Truth in Comics

If it's Sunday, it's Truth in Comics.

Unemployment at 9.8%

Buy, hey, Wall Street's doing fine so who gives a crap.

Friday Cat

Chicago Loses Bid for 2016 Olympics

And the shame and failure brought upon the nation by President Obama for having tried and failed will cripple his presidency. Or something.

Mandate with a public option, please

Senate Majority Leader Olympia Snowe:

“The obligation should be first and foremost on the United States government to ensure that these plans will be affordable in the marketplace,” Ms. Snowe said. “It surprises me that we would have these high-level penalties on the average American when we have no certainty about whether or not these plans will be affordable. I just don’t understand why there’s this impetus to punish people.”

Snowe wants certainty on affordability, yet voted against a public option that would surely guarantee exactly that. Head meet wall. Repeat.

More Grayson

It's just too damn refreshing not to post.



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Turning the tables

The best part about Rep. Alan Grayson calling the GOP out is that he has turned the tables on the GOP noise machine. Basically, make an inflammatory comment and watch the media, and the opposition, talk about it as the basic point embeds itself into the public's mind. And, even better, in this case, the inflammatory comment is true (as opposed to death panels and Nazis and whatever).

Here's Grayson on Rachell (good stuff):