Depth of Feeling

Matt Taibbi has a post up at True Slant titled The Catholic Church is a Criminal Enterprise.  It is a strongly written piece, written with an economy of words that the church has orchestrated a cover-up of the pedophilia that has been going on for decades, maybe even centuries. Full Disclosure: I, similar to Matt, [...]

Hypocrites and Whackos

UPDATE: Below I was over at Salon reading Joe Conason and the post at the top is about Mike Vanderboegh is the far-right activist from Alabama who gained sudden notoriety when he posted a message this week urging his fellow extremists to smash the windows of Democratic politicians to protest healthcare reform — a wingnut [...]

Job

Back in 1985, when I was looking for a job, I had to “settle” for a government job.  And to top it all off, I had to re-locate, at my own expense, to where the job was. That was when there was jobs available.  Totally different story today.  There are no jobs.  When one considers [...]

Cloture

Why can’t some Senator invoke cloture on this?  I obviously don’t know all the Senate rules but if Collins and other Republicans disagree with Bunning why can’t they vote to cut off debate?