Sick and Tired of Waste-Our-Time-And-Money Bills and Resolutions

I'm sick and tired of how Congress wastes our time and money between pork-barrel spending and "press release" bills and resolutions that do nothing. The current resolution that has me upset was introduced by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). It's a reaction to the anti-General Petraeus ad run in the New York Times by MoveOn.org. The resolution is a "Congress supports our troops" message while also being an attack on MoveOn.org. In short, it's a move by Republicans to make Democrats choose between "I don't support our troops." and "I'm not liberal enough." The big news? Sen. Clinton (D-NY) and Sen. Dodd (D-CT) both "hate our troops", Sen. Biden (D-DE) "doesn't care enough to vote at all", and Sen Obama (D-IL) "won't say whether he's not liberal enough or if he hates our troops." Perhaps it's both.

Mod-Blog Embargo of NYT Ends

Today, the New York Times has announced their policy of charging for content has ended, and that over the course of the next week, the "New York Times Premium" content will transition over to a free ad-based model instead. With that news, the Mod-Blog embargo of NYT stories (imperfectly maintained, but generally in force over the last year) can finally end. I welcome this news, and the return to sanity that it represents. I appreciate the NYT's need to make money to support their efforts, but when every other newpaper on the web can do it with advertising, the old Grey Lady should be able to do the same.