compromise

It is worth noting that House Speaker Boehner did not use the word "compromise" once in his debt-ceiling speech last night.

the GOP Taliban

The Taliban wing of the GOP is hell-bent on ruination over the debt-ceiling impasse, wearing financial suicide vests, sure of their purity, confident of their paradise of possession.

Albatross of Possession

Just finished "House of Sand and Fog," by Andre Dubus III.

Though it came out more than 10 years ago, ahead of its time on the burdens of having and acquiring.

The American Dream turned tragically upside down and inside out.

Have yet to see the movie.