sleepcamel.net : brad weikel

While I'm trying to focus on strictly academic and analytic topics on this site, it's inevitable - particularly during the summer, when I'm out of school - that some of my posts will end up being about my life. Such as this one.

After a brutally exhausting first year in graduate school, I've been looking for an excuse to slow down, at least in terms of my coursework. The financial pressure to put in more hours at work has played a role, as well. Well, turns out it would be a number of forces that would lead me to reduce my coursework... but that hardly means I won't be frantically busy.

On NewsHour this week, following the delivery of the bill proposing $124 billion for the military -- contingent upon a timeline for withdrawal from Iraq -- Jim Lehrer spoke with Senators Patty Murray (D), Washington, and Kay Hutchinson (R), Texas.