Hammer Mill Days

Stir a little harder. That's the stuff. Put some elbow-grease in it. No, goddamnit, not for real! That's just an expression! It means.... oh, mother of pearl. Oh, hello, cyber-surfers. You find us in one of life's most humble pursuits: making a substandard dinner. That's the kind we like here at the Cheney Hammer Mill - far preferable to no dinner at all. In case you hadn't guessed, soup is on the menu this evening, and inasmuch as we cannot afford that ultra- haut cuisine canned stuff you probably enjoy, your stalwart friends in Big Green are making it from scratch. And when I say scratch, that's no euphemism. As I mentioned before, elbow grease is a euphemism, and one that should never be an ingredient in home made soup. Though, sadly, it is now part of ours. Another reason why it's best not to have Marvin (my personal robot assistant) help with such tasks. (He just had his elbows re-greased, as it happens.) But hey - if you were thinking of dropping b

Me thinkst the Democratic party has missed a real opportunity here to show the American people how committed they are to the well-being of working and poor families, their supposed constituency. Extension of unemployment benefits have been stopped yet again by the Republicans (joined by some particularly execrable Democrats), whose threat of a filibuster is enough to weaken the knees of the ruling party. As I've mentioned before, the filibuster is never actually joined, just threatened, and in the gentleman's club that is the U.S. Senate, that is enough for the majority to stand down. So having fallen short of their 60-vote supermajority, the majority has declared the holiday weekend to be underway. That's for Congress , not for the millions of unemployed. How's that for solidarity? Hey, Harry Reid - time to take the gloves off. If the Republicans threaten a filibuster over benefits for the long-term unemployed, hold them to it. Make them stand there, hour after hour,