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Yesterday was the yearly celebration of love. Love between couples, and yet there is love in many forms. It's great that we set aside a special day honoring love, every year, but love should be honored every day of our lives and we as people should make that a point in our lives. We need to love the world itself, for in love, there is salvation. Only universal love will save our world.

The question to be asked of Republicans about the poor, aside from, "How can you be such complete assholes?!" is, "Really, there are well paying jobs out there just waiting for the poor to apply but the poor won't because they're way too comfy being poor? Name those specific jobs."

There was a crooked man, and he blocked a crooked mile, He found a crooked fallguy within a crooked pile; He bought a crooked guise which hid a crooked louse, And he lied like a carpet in his little crooked house.

Beatlemania is a term that originated during the 1960s to describe the intense fan frenzy directed toward British rock and roll band "The Beatles." The...

It occurred to me after I published MMT Part 1 that perhaps it wasn't the best introduction to MMT. I condensed a lot of information into a relatively short post. Shortly before publishing the post I ran across a video illustrating how modern money works and attached it to the end of the post.

If Chris Christie did become President, after declaring that his first act in office would be ordering the National Guard to install defrosters in Hell (and insisting that Hell freezing over wasn't caused by human activity), who would he nominate to be in his cabinet?

If you don't know me, I'm a bit of a student of economics, though "Student" may be stretching it. What I am intensely interested in is the overarching "whole" of how things work together to form the civilization that surrounds us.

Hey Planet Peeps! The Polar Vortex sure hasn't slowed time any because yet another week has rocketed by. Another weekend music thread is now upon us.

To be as fair as possible, this still remains an allegation but to have the willingness of Wildstein to return the favor and throw Christie under the bus to save his own skin, it does look like Christie's days are numbered. How many other termites might follow Wildstein out of the woodwork?

You're invited to join us tonight to watch President Obama's 2014 State of the Union Address and chat live in real time with fellow members during his speech.