I just finished watching another incredibly annoying episode of Realtime. I had high hopes for it, sine Bernie Sanders was on, but it was made unbearable by the presence of loudmouth schmuck Stephen Moore, and some annoying twit from the Crappington Post Live. Neither of them would STFU when Bernie had something to say (as Bernie said at one point, “you’re loud but you’re not right”). I honestly don’t understand why Maher has Moore on. He’s always the same overbearing snide, ignorant purveyor of “free market” and rightwing talking points who refuses to shit up and let somebody else have a say.

Fortunately, after that debacle came the first episode of “Vice,” which was really good. They went to the Philippines, where elections are apparently won by whoever manages to kill the opposing candidates, and to Afghanistan where they explored suicide bombings (mostly by kids). I have to say, much as I appreciate the reporting they do, these people are nuts. No way in hell would I put myself in these situations.

You may have heard that Obama has officially decided to fuck over Social Security (and veterans’ benefits) by officially codifying the use of chained CPI in his budget proposal. Of course, his budget has no chance of passing, but, like his healthcare reform negotiating “tactics,” it means that he’ll now be forced to cave in even more. It’s not a surprise, but it is pretty annoying. No doubt they’ll raise the age for social security to 72 or something and turn Medicare into an insurance voucher system so that old people can just get sick and die and save the younger generation lots of money (they don’t realize that they’ll be old before they know it, but it’s OK as log as they can have the latest and greatest iThing).

On the bright side, he’s giving the OK (and the funding) to NASA to capture an asteroid. Yeah, we’re gonna go out and find one and bring it back to the moon, where we’ll go and walk around on it. In 2021. So, that should be fun, I guess. I’ll be 60, and looking forward to another 12 years of work before I can retire. Assuming I’m luck enough to still have a job, which is no guarantee the way things are going these days.

Oh well, it looks like it’s shaping up to be a decent day. Not super warm, but sunny. Maybe I can get to work on doing some fencing. I need something to tire me out so I can w=take a nap for a few hours this evening. Hopefully things won’t suck.