Back to work today, and, as Chester A. Riley used to say, “aint that a revoltin’ development?” I wish I could count on the world ending in 2011 (or even 2012). I could quit working and live off savings and credit cards for a year or two. But when the Apocalypse didn’t come, I’d be screwed. I’m just really not in the mood to go to work this morning. At least it’s supposed to be warm today – up to 20° or so – and only another three inches of snow (give or take). From Friday through yesterday, we got about two feet, putting us a few inches above normal for the first time this season (and back in our rightful place at #1 in the Golden Snowball contest).

Before you do anything else today, be sure to go over to the Huff Post and rate Michelle Obama’s Hawaiian vacation outfits. I really don’t get it.

Some Democrats want to create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency to at least put some regulation on banks and other financial institutions. This, of course, is strongly opposed by Republicans. Since Democrats need 60 votes to do anything, and since there are plenty of Democrats that can be bought off by lobbyists (and that’s not even counting Joe Lieberman), my prediction is that either nothing will happen, or the Democrats will compromise this into some toothless joke of an agency that Republicans will point to as evidence of just how shitty Democrats are. Just like health care.

Speaking of the GOP, is it too early to start wondering which Republican will wind up being President in 2013? That’s assuming Obama keeps sticking it to the progressive-minded people out there who donated so much time and money to his first run, while failing to woo the wingnuts and bigots on the right, of course. At this point, he looks like one-and-done to me, but things can change awfully fast, so who knows?

Oh well, I guess I better get my shit together, get out the door, and be a good little citizen taxpayer.