Our brave governor continues his fight against working people, all while raising the pay for staff in his communications office, where five staffers have just gotten about $50,000 in pay raises (most in the vicinity of 20% increases, which is rather ironic to those of us about to face a 20% pay cut). Of course, the overall payroll in that office is down, thanks to the top two people resigning in disgust when they found out the governor put the screws to a domestic violence victim in order to protect on of his aides. The fight moves to Federal Court, where the Public Employees Federation (PEF) was the first to file for a restraining order to prevent the furloughs. Absent any action from the courts, the furloughs will go into effect beginning Monday. No doubt our management is working on a plan to deal with all this but, so far, us regular people are in the dark as to how this will all work, who gets screwed and who doesn’t, and how they intend to distribute our unpaid vacations. All I know is, I better not have to take, like a Tuesday off. If I’m gonna lose money, I at least want three-day weekends.

In other news, apparently it’s appropriate for “legitimate” news outlets to speculate about the sexual persuasion of Elena Kagan. Even Eliot Spitzer felt obliged to defend her heterosexuality (and when Eliot says you’re not gay…). Why this would be anybody’s business is (like so many other things) beyond me. Unless she was a closeted day who had devoted her entire career to discriminating against and vilifying gay people (like, say this guy), I see no reason why anybody should care. And, of course, this kind of speculation would be considered verboten if she was a dude or looked like a Barbie doll.

Though I bet Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman star in the lesbian fantasy dreams of many a teabagger.

Oh well, time to get ready to get going.