Listen, I understand that everyone is talking and writing about the government shutdown and the debt ceiling. I don't have anything to add to that discussion, other than that the dynamics of the situation have not changed materially since December of 2012, when I wrote “The Chicken Game” http://blastedfools.wordpress.com/2012/12/03/the-chicken-game/ I hope that House Republicans will stand their ground, but I don't have anything uniquely insightful on that and certainly not enough to rant for several paragraphs. So, excuse me for that and in the meantime, while we await what will probably be nothing more than a cease fire or a...