A government shutdown is looking less likely. Here's why that should scare you.
Elias Isquith
Elias Isquith is a freelance journalist and blogger. He considers Bob Dylan and Walter Sobchak to be the two great Jewish thinkers of our time; he thinks Kafka was half-right when he said there was hope, "but not for us"; and he can be reached through the twitter via @eliasisquith or via email. The opinions he expresses on the blog and throughout the interwebs are exclusively his own.
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An instant classic in the field of so-bad-it's-good.
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Reading the interview, you get the impression of a guy already trying to define the way his...
The speech was fine, but it never should have been given.
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She's not saying Mike Enzi wouldn't get his hair mussed...
