Today’s been a busy day. No, I haven’t been at work — we’re still furloughed, to the best of my knowledge. Instead, I’ve been working on the highway pages, mostly going through the April 1931 CHPW incorporating the rationale for the routes they added that year… and discovering where I had problems to fix on my pages (the whole relationship between US 60, US 70, US 99, LRN 26, and LRN 77 is odd). So, instead of other news, here are two articles related to the shutdown I found of interest (and linked previously on Facebook):
- What is the Tea Party? Here’s an interesting article about how the Tea Party radicalism is misunderstood. The Tea Party is really the “newest right”, and is neither extremist, populist, irrational, or stupid. Want to know what is is? Read the article.
- Even More Understanding. Want to understand this even more? Here are the results from focus groups about how the Tea Party views President Obama. They are feeling loss of power, and nothing represents that loss more than Obamacare. Now, put these findings in conjunction with the first article.
In terms of shutdown effects, here’s another: The NASA interns in Mountain View were told they had less than 24 hours to get out of their dorms and find someone else to live.
