Does anyone else get the feeling that congress only shows up to work every day, essentially, to vote on whether they're going to bother to show up tomorrow?

Because...

That doesn't seem like a very good way to run a country.

Hahahaa. All that Republican rhetoric this week is almost as laughable as the Supreme Court decision that precipitated it.

I'd like to see someone write a story in which corporations are tried for misdemeanors and felonies, just like people, even tried for murder, and have to serve jail time (asset frezes? who knows). Social philosophers decide that, in order for juducual sentences against companies to stop hamstringing the entire system, corporations exist to *serve* people, and then becomes the paradoxical lawsuit in which corporations sue for reparations due to long slavery in the service of mere people who aren't corporations (but who granted the corporations human-status in the first place).

IDEK.

Anyone? Bueller?

But it would make me laugh.

I purchased HBO for the incestuous Game of Thrones but stayed for the Wall Street/Washington lovechild of Too Big to Fail. (and Trueblood. Still waiting for my new season of trashy vampires.)

Officially the best scene ever: Hank Paulson excuses himself to go puke.

I probably shouldn't have laughed so hard. I was on an internship in Colorado when all this went down, trying to make sense of it while talking to my Citi-employed mother on the phone.

Also: Billy Crudup as Geitner. I don't even know why I find that so funny.

Um, and Topher Grace exclaiming "Clusterfuck!" in the halls of congress FTW. Not to mention: "If we hang a few wall street execs, that would get a few votes." This is HIlarious-- especially because we're hardly beyond the crisis yet. It's like the loopiness that sets in around five in the morning when you're pulling an allnighter at work.

Seriously, a good movie for the laughs if not the srs drama yo.

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In other news, I'm fostering another puppy. She's about a 8mo-1yr old pitt. Not entirely housebroken, but trying, a big lovebug. I call her "bug."

Her people were arrested a few days ago, and the humane society took her from the abandoned house.

I relly REALLY want her to get a good home. If she passes my (rigorous) tests for being a good house dog, I will try to convince my parents to adopt. Even though they've been reluctant to go for a pitty.

On the protests in Wisconsin

There’s a bitter irony here. The fiscal crisis in Wisconsin, as in other states, was largely caused by the increasing power of America’s oligarchy. After all, it was superwealthy players, not the general public, who pushed for financial deregulation and thereby set the stage for the economic crisis of 2008-9, a crisis whose aftermath is the main reason for the current budget crunch. And now the political right is trying to exploit that very crisis, using it to remove one of the few remaining checks on oligarchic influence.

So will the attack on unions succeed? I don’t know. But anyone who cares about retaining government of the people by the people should hope that it doesn’t.

I say my conscience because it's less that I worship every word from his blog (though sometimes I feel like I do) and more that, like a conscience, every time I consider arguments that are fabricated by a certain powerful faction in this country, he reminds me why I'm a progressive liberal in the first place.

POWER to anyone demonstrating against Gov. Walker. You rock like an Egyptian.

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In other words, new Being Human tonight! Who's with me?