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Between a severe subway bombing in Moscow and Ricky Martin coming out of the closet, how does anyone keep track of what’s going on in the world?

Oh, yeah. We don’t.

Today, health care reform passed in the House of the Representatives at the expense of low-income women’s reproductive rights and a new debate on what constitutes Constitutionality.

Woot?

Vice President and former Delaware Senator Joe Biden visited Israel this week, promising them “absolute, total, unvarnished commitment to Israel’s security.”

Thus, Biden espoused the same iPod-on-replay rhetoric politicians have been unquestioningly utilizing for the past forty years.

I started this blog today because in exactly one month I will head off to Germany. I have to admit, this future (and expensive) endeavor still feels so surreal.

Trigger-happy Americans and their beloved guns – the same weapons that are used to kill nearly 30,000 citizens each year – are probably jumping for joy now that The Supreme Court is seriously considering the extension of second amendment “rights” to state and local levels.

Translation: more guns! More lawsuits! Go team USA!