Hammer Mill Days

Is this the right control? Okay... I'll try CTRL-ALT-DEL again. God damn! What the hell did I do that time? Bloody computers! Okay, I'm struggling with my status as official Luddite of Big Green . (Originally that post belonged to my illustrious brother Matt, but now he's the dude with the smart phone.) I don't claim to be the most inept person ever to sit in front of a keyboard, but good goddamn - I'm making a doorstop out of this thing. If they just equipped PC's with drawbars and foot pedals, I could drive the suckers, no problem. Why am I spending so much time in front of the cyclopean eye of the decrepit computer originally left at our door by a malicious junk collector? Well, we have a new single in the works, as you may already know - a little number called "One Small Step". Matt shot the video with only minimal assistance from yours truly. (I basically showed up in a turtleneck - he did the rest.) So the very least I could do is upload the suc

Not sure whether or not the government will have been shut down by cartoon pirates by the time you read this, but there's a fair chance of it. It never ceases to amaze me how deeply insane our national legislature can become when there are no effective checks placed upon it. And trust me, there are no effective checks. We have a bicameral legislature in a federal system that divides power into three branches. With respect to initially passing legislation, really only two of those branches are relevant; the Democrats control the executive branch and the upper house of the legislative branch, the Republicans the lower house of the legislature. So who calls the shots? The Republicans, of course, by default. Boehner started negotiations on the current fiscal year budget with a demand for $30 billion or so in cuts. The Democrats have acceded to that and then some. So now, naturally, Boehner's caucus wants $60 billion in cuts, plus the passage of a bunch of extreme right riders that