Not really a lot for me to say about the bailout package, but I stumbled on this funny sentence in the NYTimes:
After the overnight drafting efforts on both sides of Capitol Hill -- with pizza on the House side, and Thai food in the Senate -- Democratic officials said they had completed a unified draft of a bill.
1) Did the particular choices of overnight food affect the impressions of the relevant parties about the bill?
2) Do you think the House eats cheaper than the Senate? I mean, there are more of them...
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Overnight (well, overnight for my time zone), I received an email, beseeching me to submit a story or two to the carnival of evolution.
A twelve year old boarder collie mix survived being frozen to the sidewalk for a whole night in Wisconsin. The overnight temperature dropped into the single digits, yet the elderly animal survived. How?
If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.
- Dicky Barrett
An expedition to reveal the secrets of a mysterious huge hole at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean started overnight.
I was wondering the same thing. Pizza would definitely lead to more heartburn and the Senate is always considered a little more elitist than the House. I think it was a very interesting anecdote that says a lot about how each congressional branch is comprised and functions. I wish the media had a separate resource for these kinds of interesting facts.
You don't post enough. In fact, you make the readers bored, and I feel like I should take you off the bookmarks that I have. Please post more often.
It's a mafia thing. Some politicians need to be seen eating pizza or their funding dries up.