Your government at odds

I was watching BookTV this morning when it was interrupted for special business of the Senate. Listening to senators is like working with ammonia. There's only so much you can stand. You could cut the hypocrisy with a knife, especially when Harry Reid was speaking. I can't quite figure out what's going on. They've talked about allowing a vote on the Patriot Act extension, then about the Defense authorization bill, then about the McCain Amendment. I don't know what they were meeting for, but it seemed kind of pointless.

They're now waiting to get enough Senators there to vote. I'm starting to wish for the good old days of Logan's Run when Washington was abandoned and overgrown with vines. Mars Attacks wasn't a bad time, either since it seems that only Washington D.C. and Las Vegas were affected.