Quiver…

The only apprehension I feel for the coming administration is the apprehension of every federal employee and what the political appointees will bring.
You never know how they’ll be, how long they’ll be there, and if they’ll be any good. Certainly this new deluge must be better than the last one. I recall one from Texas [...]

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Economics is just Religion for the bookish

Subtitle: It’s best to pick one that’s not so obnoxious.
One of the reasons I gave up economics (besides the math) was that it resembles religion far too much. It is a matter of belief, of strongly held belief, that brooks no wavering, no possibility of changing one’s mind. When I studied it in high school [...]

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“Molasses running uphill in a snowstorm”

In exactly two weeks the end of this administration will come and a new one will begin. It is without a doubt a happy occasion for most, including myself, albeit from perhaps a slightly different angle than many on whose side I usually find myself seated. It is not the passing of one man in [...]

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Prez, Pols & Palin

Virtually verbatim comment made elsewhere, but sums up my sentiments. I know it’s a ledge to say it without a filter, but after 12 hours of work for whatever AK’s guv thinks is the root of all evil, I don’t care enough about her to let her devalue me.
I wouldn’t have watched it, had I [...]

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CRs and other things that go bump in the night

It’s coming down to the wire as Uncle Sam’s agency budgets are concerned. Two weeks and counting; will Congress and our esteemed leader manage to produce appropriations bills, turn them into law and keep things moving so we can keep bailing out Wall Street, ethics liberated brokers, banks, and people who really don’t need McMansions, [...]

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State

You will never see just one style of writing, as I like a flair for the dramatic on occasion, and am heavily influenced by whatever I’m reading, so the tone shifts and flutters around on occasion.
I attended a gentleman’s birthday celebration at a local watering hole on the boundary of old Zone 1, who [...]

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