No, I didn’t watch the SOTU address last night. No reason to, really, as I’ll be forced to endure endless recaps any time I get near the news. I gather it went “well,” which means it was filled with typically meaningless bullshit, and the only thing that has a prayer of actually happening is a “compromise” – and by that, I mean cuts to both social programs and taxes for rich people. Perhaps I missed it, but I didn’t catch anything about cutting the military or not engaging in war and “nation building” or whatever it is we’re up to these days.

To give you an idea of where we’re headed, you only need look at Republican Rex Paul Ryan’s “rebuttal.”

Basically, increase the national debt to upwards of 190% of GDP while raising taxes on 90% of taxpayers in order lo lower taxes for the top 10% (especially the top 1%, whose taxes will decrease by over 15%). Oh, and of course repeal even the crappy health care reform so that there are even more uninsured Americans (‘cuz, hey, if these slackers could somehow manage to afford a luxury like health insurance before, that 12% tax increase on people making an average of $13,000 a year should put an end to it).

Bootstraps, folks. Bootstraps.

Hey, it’s good to be rich. You knew that.

The only people who don’t know how good it is to be rich are the poor, downtrodden, persecuted rich people. Thank goodness they have the Republicans and the President of Wall St. to look out for them.

On the bright side, at least you’re not this guy, who found his car more or less a frozen block of ice, due, apparently to the combination of the cold and big ass pothole filled with water.

Speaking of the cold rain and snow, another winter storm is headed this way, and, once again, it looks like it’ll miss us and hit NYC with another 6″ or so of snow. Which is a bummer for them, but now that Mayor Bloomers seems to understand that when it snows you need to plow the streets, everything should be OK.

Crap, it’s a meeting day. Has it been two weeks already?