This story uses a tone of dismay. But my question is, how can you be dismayed when good people stomp out loathsome bugs before they get into the walls where they can multiply and possibly infest the entire edifice? Let the ritual distancings commence! **** update: or not.

Byron York, The Washington Examiner: The Post Office is supposed to pay for itself, but in recent years has been covering its losses by borrowing from the Treasury. But now, GAO notes, the Post Office “is nearing its $15 billion borrowing limit with the U.S. Treasury and has unfunded pension and retiree health obligations and other liabilities of about $90 billion.” Labor costs are killing the Post Office. Wages and

At least somebody’s getting mileage out of the message. update: The Empire Strikes Back

On the previous post. Sometimes I wonder if those who profess “alarm” at the hateyness coming from the bipartisan tea party movement (who they’ve taken to characterizing as “the far right”) are equally alarmed by demonstrably illiberal attempts to shut down such hateyness. — Or is the shutting down of the “right wing” hateyness out of “earnest” hateyness of evil right wingers a good thing, given that the second hateyness