Okay, so the government is shut down because Congress is unable to play nice together and find compromise – but why would that shut the USDA website down?

I checked out a few other government sites – including EPA, Energy, FDA, the White House and Congress – and none of them are shut down. I can understand not updating, but shutting down? I know a little bit about websites and I’m pretty sure they that keeping the website up is more cost effective than actually shutting it down for however long it takes Congress to get its act together. Someone actually had to go to the trouble of not only shutting it down, but creating a new landing page for usda.gov to redirect – http://www.usda.gov/fundinglapse.htm.

Really? That’s just silly.