Month August 2011

Politicians and pundits are belly-aching about the S&P downgrade. Yes, S&P did some seriously sleazy things in the past (and this blog slammed them and the other ratings agencies for it back when most progressive blogs were clueless about the…

The political brinksmanship of recent months highlights what we see as America’s governance and policymaking becoming less stable, less effective, and less predictable than what we previously believed. The statutory debt ceiling and the threat of default have become political…

It’s 8 AM in Utah and we just started thundering 13.1 miles down a steep canyon road to Parowan. Feel those calves burn! W00t! (Ok, by Mile 12, most of us will probably be turtleing not thundering…)

I prepared this post before the S&P downgrade of the US debt. It’s more true than ever now Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) sums up our incompetent, irresponsible, mostly venal and utterly self-absorbed Congress and White House. I wish there were…