Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, 'n Guns blog,

"I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction. Everything hurts now, and nothing makes sense."

- CARRIE FISHER, POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE

So, Davos finally got the mini-me version of Build Back Better through a deeply divided Senate over the weekend. It's a terrible bill and will be a worse law, but at least it's only about 12% of the original cost.

I guess it's true what they say, the US must be broke, even new layers of tyranny are cut-rate at this point.

Whatever happened to dreaming big?

It's all you can do now but to laugh, right? Nothing in D.C. is what it seems, like having lawmakers who work for Americans and the betterment of America. While this has been clear to me for what feels like my entire life, there is still real resistance to this concept.