Having all sort of computer problems today — in fact, this has been going on for some time — so I’m going to try to fix those with a few hard drive changes before I bequeath you any more of my extremist, cynical, anti-pragmatic purist observations of hating hate. You’ll just have to hate on your own in the meantime. Sorry. Don’t hate me.

Robert Romano, ALG, explains the conflicting budget cut numbers: Here’s the facts: the 2011 CR addresses the non-emergency budgeting authority for 2011. It authorizes $1.049 trillion of spending versus the total $1.364 trillion discretionary portion of the budget that will actually be spent this year. Why the difference? Because discretionary outlays for 2011 serve as a function of the 2011 non-emergency budgeting authority plus the war supplemental plus budgeting authorities