Headed to the Oregon State vs Washington football game. Should be a good game, but I am not going to get to watch much. I'll be in the lower concourse concession stand serving beer to raise money for Corvallis High School athletics. Come say hi if you're thirsty.
It's that time of year when we find out how much health insurance costs. Silver plans this year are almost $2000 per month for 2 people, and the Out of Pocket Maximum went up to $15k! We'll get subsidies depending on how much we earn, but that's almost $40k in exposure for healthcare.
Our parks department had mushroom day yesterday, so this morning's eggs featured chanterelle mushrooms which are delicious.
The sad thing about Pence isn’t that his political career ended with a humiliating whimper. He deserves that. It’s that it ended that way because he did one thing that met the absolute minimum standards of decency and integrity. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
The former vice president’s campaign never gained traction as he confronted a GOP that has moved beyond the Reagan-era conservatism he embodied.
We went from a Scaramucci being ten days to an Emmer, which is 4 hours.
The Gerrymandering Behind the MAGA Schism Virtually every House Republican is a MAGA loyalist. I think one of the biggest issues in this dispute is the impact of gerrymandering. davidfry.com/2023/10/20/t...
I think a lot of us sensed when Trump won the nomination in 2016 that his antics might lead to the destruction of the Republican party. And it seems that may be the case. But the schism was not between MAGA and regular Republicans, because those old-school Republicans left the building long ago.