
Party Crash: An Administration Head Rolls
From Politico.com White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers is stepping down, a White House aide tells POLITICO. Rogers, a Chicago friend of the Obamas, drew fire for her handling of the state dinner party-crashers in November. I’m waiting to see if any of the security folks get canned.
AIG – Focus In The Wrong Place
AIG is saying that paying back some of the bailout money is causing the “too big to fail” insurance concern to lose money. We should have let these companies go broke. All of them. They’re too big to be kept afloat.
2/18: An excuse to say stupid things
2/18 refers to Thursday 2/18/2010 or the day Joe Stack flew his plane into the Echelon building in Austin, Texas. Last night I heard someone say, “…calm down, don’t fly into my house.”
Epicurus on Immortality
Know that there is no such thing as immortality. Therefore, death is not an evil; it is simply irrelevant to us. As long as we exist, there is no death, and when death comes upon us, we do not exist. Belief in immortality was born of the greed of insatiable [...]
Saved by the Storm
From Politico.com The House has canceled all votes for the week due to the latest snowstorm. I new some good would come from all this snow.
To paraphrase Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu said, “…a battle is won or lost before it is fought…” Well, “a football game is won or lost regardless of whether I’m watching.” Sports are generally not my thing. I don’t keep track of stats or players and I usually get tired of seeing or hearing about [...]





