New Math

Well, arithmetic anyway.

Number of days since doing laundry 
minus
Number of pairs of underwear
equals
Depth of my funk

Inversely proportional of course - the higher the number, the lower I am.

I figure over time, it would plot out like a Sine Curve and I'd be able to see where I am on the Mood Swing Cycle.

Today's Pix

It's A Wonderment

When Paul Ryan says killing Obamacare is an act of mercy, why don't the rubes translate that as "the 9 most terrifying words in the English language"?

Today's Tweet

I know you're gonna fire whoever did this, @McDonaldsCorp, but really you should be giving them a raise. pic.twitter.com/wXoTiXU3U4

— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) March 16, 2017

Today's Meme

On The Budget

WaPo:

On Thursday, the Trump administration released a preliminary 2018 budget proposal, which details many of the changes the president wants to make to the federal government’s spending. The proposal covers only discretionary, not mandatory, spending.

To pay for an increase in defense spending, a down payment on the border wall and school voucher programs, among other things, funding was cut from the discretionary budgets of other executive departments and agencies. The Environmental Protection Agency, the State Department and the Agriculture Department took the hardest hits. The proposal also eliminates funding for these 19 agencies.

 

The piece lets you focus in on recaps for individual departments, like Agriculture (eg):

Today's Tweet

As Trump nominates his fifth Goldman Sachs official, let us take a moment to remember the wrongest take of 2016: pic.twitter.com/B2Lmjhe9iN

— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) March 15, 2017

Keith

NEW: Keep. Eye. On. Ball. FBI's Comey will go public Weds. on Trump/Russia. Remember: it is ALL Trump/Russia pic.twitter.com/QllSjszS1E

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) March 15, 2017

It's Gotta Be Mutual

Tim Wise on Facebook:

The task is to empathize with the very real class pain of working class white folks, beaten up by global capitalism, while NOT pandering to their racialized sense of specialness, and actively confronting and condemning their bullshit diagnosis for that pain. But it MUST be reciprocal. If working class white folks want sympathy for their very real struggles they MUST empathize with folks of color who have always struggled under white supremacy. And if they are not willing to do this, I believe in steamrolling them, without sentimentality. I do not believe POC owe white people ANYTHING, including sympathy, until and unless those white folks are prepared to relinquish their/our addiction to white normativity and relative privilege. And to disagree with this is to prioritize the needs and concerns of white people, which is to reinforce white supremacy by definition...I will have none of it...white working class folks have benefitted more from white supremacy than POC have benefited from the class system, so the former must make the first move in terms of empathy and outreach...not the other way around...

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A Perspective

ACA has been a big help for something like 20 million American families, but it either hasn't helped where it should - or there's been a negative effect - for about 3 million others.

My question: Instead of fixing it so it works for those 3 million families, we're thinking we should fuck over the 20 million families in order to give the insurance companies another shot at fucking over all 23 million?

Great plan.