Social Security Insecurity

A seriously great and thorough editorial about the straw man issue that Bush is taking on with Social Security.

And another from Krugman.

The long and short of it is this: Wall Street and the already wealthy and invested are the only conceivable beneficiaries from this pointless change. With W at the helm, color me shocked...

Xmas in Greenville

Happy New Year! Virtually forgot about politics for two weeks while at the Republican in-laws. The only time it really came up was when my mother-in-law and I had a short, very brief tiff over Iraq, and then when Kelley and I were walking around her neighborhood in Greenville, NC and easily 19 out of 20 cars on the road in her hood was a frickin' SUV!!! !@#$@#$!@#$!!!! I was staggered to see that driveway after driveway was filled with three or four of them at a time! Granted, Kelley pointed out that this was because sons and daughters and other family members were home for the holidays, but okay this just means everyone in the family has a frickin' SUV that is normally stationed elsewhere! And generally speaking the more obscenely oversized the more prevalent these ungodly things were. As if it weren't bad enough being bombarded with the gas-guzzling monster trucks of the SUV Terrorist Support Fund network - a good half of which were (of course) sporting Bush Cheney '04 stickers, there was a UPS driver who kept tearing down these "quiet" residential roads at freeway speeds, apparently trying to make his time no matter what the cost. Needless to say, our attempt at a peaceful winter walk (there was an unusual snow in Greenville that even more unusually stayed on the ground for days) was a wash. Fortunately, this walk was the exception to an otherwise wonderful relaxing computer-free stay in Greenville.