So, the House passed the re-reconciliation bill, and health care reform (for this year, anyway) is a done deal. It really seems to have pissed off the idiot Republicans, so for that alone, it’s a good thing. Congress also passed a vast overhaul to Federal College aid, including larger and more accessible Pell grants, and easier loan repayment. So that’s a good thing, I guess (does nothing for me, so I should resent the fact that people are getting something I’m not, but that’s just not how I run). Some people – like the teabaggers – seem to have such unhappy, miserable lives, and they resent anybody who isn’t as unhappy and miserable as they are.

Republicans – having lost their battle to do nothing on health care – and their ilk have resorted to death threats and racial slurs. This is because they’re a bunch of big whiny babies. Last I looked, somewhere around half of we the people think this was a necessary first step (that doesn’t go nearly far enough), so I don’t see what a minority constituency consisting of ignorant crybabies think they have the right to bully the rest of us. I mean, since when were these people supporters of minority rights?

Speaking of minorities, House assistant minority douche (or whatever his official title is) Eric Cantor called a press conference to declare that, “oh, yeah, well somebody shot out my windows, too.” Of course, it turned out to be bullshit, as somebody fired a bullet into the air, and where it landed? Well, we know where. It landed in the vicinity of a two-story office building in Richmond, breaking a window on the bottom floor. Cantor rents out some offices on the top floor. Poor Eric. A victim in his own mind.

My big hope is that they’ll soon pass an amendment that gives free health care to gay married couples and their children, and subsidize it by a “divorce fine” on straight couples that untie the knot (preferably a fine that increases with each divorce). That’ll make the teabaggers’ heads spin. And a fine on the parents of kids who get knocked up (or knock somebody else up) out of wedlock after taking the “chastity pledge” would be a nice touch, too.

I think I’m gonna start a crusade to stop taking my tax dollars and spending them on roads I’ve never driven on and on schools (since I don’t have any kids in school). I’ve also never called the fire department or the police, so I see no reason to subsidize them, either. If you want security, pay a private company (or the mafia) to protect you. Same with the fire department. I have city water and sewer, so we can keep them, though.

Congratulations to the West Virginia Mountaineers, who didn’t play like complete and total shit last night, thereby making it to the East Regional finals here on Saturday against Kentucky, who beat Cornell. C’mon now, WVU, it’s up to you to uphold the honor of the Big East, and make Ashely Judd cry.

MathsputinGrigori Perelman is a reclusive Russian genius who solved some ridiculously difficult math problem in 2002 (so complex that it took until recently for other reclusive math geniuses to confirm he was correct). Now, he’s refusing to accept a $1 million “Millennium” mathematics prize for his efforts. Gee, you’d never guess that this guy would be a reclusive Russian math genius by looking at him.

Being no genius myself (though I am somewhat on the reclusive side), I don’t have a million dollar prize to fall back on, so I guess I’d better limp upstairs and get ready for work.