The Minnesota Legislature has been in special session for a couple weeks now, with no sign yet of a budget compromise. If budget bills for things like human services and education aren’t passed by June 30, state government (including my agency) will partially shut down. I’m not terribly worried about getting laid off or anything like that. The Legislature will come to some sort of agreement, most likely just before midnight on July 1. But I can’t quite see what a final agreement will look like. The Republicans will not agree to anything that looks like a tax hike (the Governor’s proposed cigarette…fee…tax….whatever…notwithstanding). The Democrats will not go along with any deep cuts in public health care programs like MinnesotaCare. I’m not sure how you bring together opposing sides that are staring each other down from across a $1 billion chasm. The marginal numerical advantages that each party holds in the House and Senate means that any agreement must be bipartisan, which gives me some hope for a final resolution.
The NY Daily News is extolling the virtues of geeks as boyfriends. :Slipping into my Barry White voice: C’mon, baby, let’s turn down the lights real low and and I’ll whisper hot Klingon love in your ear. qamuSHa‘ , baby. qamuSHa’.
Seems to me that the Daily News was more extolling the virtues of rich guys who happen to be geeks. (Although at least one guy pictured in that article would have a hard time convincing anyone that he’s a geek) Certainly there was a pretty good sum of geeky boys who made a lot of money in the last 15 years, but better husband material? I don’t know. If you go after a geek you’re just as likely to pair up with a guy who thinks meeting Claudia Black at DragonCon was the highlight of his entire existence.