The Crime of Human Virtue
I loved this essay by A.R. Moxon. You might, too.
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The government shutdown, one month in
It's been a month and a day since the US federal government crossed from its 2025 into its 2026 fiscal year. Because there was no statutory authority to keep spending money on October 1, the government shut down. I wrote about the legislative and budgetary details back then.
No Kings for me!
I joined the No Kings march in Oakland, California on Saturday. Word is there were more than 10,000 of us who marched from Wilma Chan Park through downtown to the Lake Merritt waterfront on a gorgeous Bay Area autumn day. The estimates I've seen of total participation
We don't need no water.
The US federal government operates on a fiscal year that begins on October 1 of each year and ends on September 30. By the first day of October, the Congress must have passed a budget, or the government isn't able to pay for stuff. Sometimes, the Congress can&
Speaking up
I started this blog as a space to talk about important issues. I wanted to share my socially liberal, progressive views. I wanted to talk about national and global finance and how we could invest in the society we ought to be. Today I want to do something more basic.