Note:  Between the time of the writing of this post and the publishing thereof, a compromise plan may have been found that will increase the debt ceiling while significantly reducing spending.  But, since I plan to spend most of my time between now and then drunk and will wake up Tuesday morning in an alleyway, […]

Dateline March 22, 1765.  Ye Olde New York Times The passage of the Stamp Act by our most glorious and liberal Parliament in London has embroiled these colonies in controversy.  And, in the opinion of Ye Olde New York Times, a needless, unnecessary and manufactured controversy engineered by conservative, selfish businessmen who, in contravention of […]