March is for a lot of things besides politics

I don’t have any special beefs or concerns to write about this week. At least nothing I want to mentally exhaust myself over that is.

The sequester is in place, like it or not, and we are awaiting the affects. It was a dumb idea, one that while signed into law by President Obama was also passed by Congress, including 174 of 240 House and 28 of 47 Senate Republicans, with 85 House and six Senate Democrats voting nay.

But, you can blame who you like, if it helps you feel better. Really, the only way something like that would have worked to strike a “grand bargain” on deficit reduction would be t...