http://www.indignantdesertbirds.com/2010/03/23/go-down-moses/ Class Warfare and Video Games Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:27:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.indignantdesertbirds.com/2010/03/23/go-down-moses/comment-page-1/#comment-594 Indignant Desert Birds » Meet the Honor Roll Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:41:09 +0000 http://www.indignantdesertbirds.com/?p=341#comment-594 [...] We don’t ordinarily think of politicians as having particularly difficult jobs. And yet… well, I’ve met these people. They work 16 hour days, try valiantly to learn copious amounts of complex information, and have to deal with some of the worst people on this planet. Every 2 years (for the House of Representatives), they can be made unemployed. In exchange, if they’re very lucky, once every generation or so they get the chance to do something that will alter the course of American history. Last Sunday was that chance. [...] [...] We don’t ordinarily think of politicians as having particularly difficult jobs. And yet… well, I’ve met these people. They work 16 hour days, try valiantly to learn copious amounts of complex information, and have to deal with some of the worst people on this planet. Every 2 years (for the House of Representatives), they can be made unemployed. In exchange, if they’re very lucky, once every generation or so they get the chance to do something that will alter the course of American history. Last Sunday was that chance. [...]

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