This may be short lived…

Our system worked today. The majority of the House of Representatives — which was always intended to be the branch most responsive to the will of the people — rejected what would have been a massive and disasterous government bailout.

I’m happy to say that I was wrong. Last week when I read about Paulson’s initial proposal for the bailout, I thought that the backing of the White House and the leaders of both parties, coupled with an atmosphere of fear and the need to “do something quickly,” would be more than enough to push it through. Instead, a coalition of far-left Democrats and the few remaining free-market Republicans, joined by many members of both parties worried about losing their seats in the upcoming elections, defeated the bill and came out victorious.

My gut still says the bill will resurface and will probably be passed, in some form or another. But today we won, and tomorrow, I’ll be quite happy to be wrong again.

A triumphant return

After months of delays, false promises, and distractions, Unschooled is back.

Since I last posted, dear reader (readers, even?),  much has happened: I graduated from engineering school, started my first full-time job, and moved into a new apartment. There was more, of course, but this site has never been about the nitty-gritty details of my life, and just because I updated the banner graphic does not mean that is about to change.

For the curious, the resurrection of Unschooled was delayed in no small part by the fact that I spent more time geeking out than getting the site back online. I switched hosting providers twice — from bluehost to VPSLink to Slicehost, where the site currently resides. I switched web servers twice — from Apache to nginx back to Apache. And I switched blogging software three times — from WordPress to Byteflow to Movable Type and back to WordPress, albeit a newer version. Needless to say, none of this was actually necessary in order to get the site back up and running.

So, despite my best efforts, the site is back, to which I can only say,

Welcome back.