So if Bush is doing the 'tax cuts for the rich' thing, why are tax revenues actually increasing? TaxProf has the numbers.

In other news...I sucessfully defended my dissertation yesterday. Success is relative, however. The committee members were mostly satisified with the dissertation, however my advisor, who read it the night before (insted of three weeks before, three months before), was not. She wants a rewrite of the entire thing, and major modifications which committee members didn't want. So basically now I have to rewrite it to make her happy, and get her to sign off, that's all that matters at this point, having her sign the paper. I don't know what that will take. It may take several more months of staying at home and writing, without any income, without a job or a postdoc, since i can't have those things until she signs the form. Yes, the advisor really does hold your career in her hands, until the last bloody moment. All i know is I have a week to get this in before the end of the semester, and 11 days before I go to Hawaii, so I just pray to god that i can get it done.