What do we have today? I’ll go see what looks good:
- Budget deal clears House on bipartisan vote (WashPost) — Whoopee. Now, on to the next partisan argument — on the same subject.
- Nato ‘needs more planes’ in Libya (BBC) — Meanwhile, the U.S. resists a larger role. This is interesting, this new “hard-to-get” approach to global leadership. It could end up with us having just as many foreign military entanglements as during the Bush era. Only nobody gets ticked at us because we let France and Britain take the lead and beg us to go along, and we’re like, “Oh, all right, but just this one…”
- Official in Charge of U.S. Air Traffic Control Resigns (NYT) — Now, finally, he can get a decent rest.
- Providence Hospital cuts 35 jobs in cost-saving efforts (thestate.com) — George Zara says “It is clear that the existing structure and fundamentals of the nation’s health care system are not sustainable.” So who’s to blame? Obama? Haley? I look forward to learning more. I take this more seriously than Amazon’s headline-grabbing “hiring freeze.”
- Soapocalypse: ABC Kills ‘Life,’ Abandons ‘Children’ (NPR) — Maybe this means something as social history goes. In any case, folks have really been buzzing about it on Twitter today. When Michael McKean said, “No spoiler alert necessary because all soaps have the same ending,” I responded by saying, “Yeah, 2 characters drink sherry and chat. For a week…”
- Do Cellphones Cause Brain Cancer? (NYT) — No, the story doesn’t answer the question. But here’s another question: If they did, and we knew it, would we stop? (I’m not even sure I’d know about it if my iPhone didn’t tell me.)
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I love Michael McKean (a/k/a David St. Hubbins). Brad, only in British Masterpiece Theatre soaps do characters drink sherry. You obvi haven’t ever actually watched an American soap!
Interestingly congress and the president are more in agreement on the budget that they are with me. With unemployment still at 8.8% this is no time to be discussing cutting the deficit. Yet that’s exactly where our elected officials are focused. We should be doing our best to put people back to work by building high speed rail, fixing our roads and expanding renewabale energy sources. The budget deficits can and should be addressed. But that can wait until unemployment falls below 7%. Of course this is not the first time I’ve been on the opposite side of the fence from our political leaders. And I doubt it will be the last.