Thursday: Wait, thursday?

I think Tuesday got dropped somewhere.  That's the only thing that makes sense to me.

This is the handle to the shower brush thing I bought.

This picture is completely unrelated to that last one.  Completely.

• Hawkman.
• Squirrel.
• Comic.
• Lalique.
• Look at the size of the trunk.  What did people need to transport in 1963?
• This is basically my complaint about a lot of the coverage as well, including basically everything by the Daily Show/Colbert team.  When you have lots of money and job security and all that, you have the time to bitch at the fucking Secretary of HHS about not having a webpage online properly.  Instead of complaining, how about pointing out that people who basically had to hope they didn't get sick can now get information in one of three ways that can help them stabilize a giant uncertainty.
• So, taking the numbers here, and looking at the current CBO estimates (page three), this suggests that doubling tax rates on the top 1% would effectively balance the baseline budget (or half the deficit in the president's).  Going for the "optimum" 57% rate would just about balance the president's while putting the baseline firmly above water by about 1% of GDP.  Taking the "maximum" solution of 83% would add a whopping 7.26% of GDP to the revenues side, pushing the 2020 balance of accounts (I'm using a 4% year-to-year GDP growth) to like +4% of GDP, or (page twelve), something like 117% of all non-defense discretionary funding.  What does that mean?  Think of all the fun things government provides (excluding blowing shit up): NASA, road construction, I'm sure they do something with ducks, national parks.  We could more than double all of that.  Just imagine that world, Free Market Conservatives.  Two NASAs, racing each other to put people on the moon.  Why do you hate competition?