-- George Packer’s New Yorker comment on the debt ceiling is pitch perfect.
-- Paul Campos on Grover Norquist and the metaphysics of taxes.
-- Marxist Socialist jokes.
-- Shocker from Gallup: “Basic lack of money remains Americans' foremost financial concern”
-- Why Newt Gingrich’s latest is the “most inaccurate, least intellectual book about our nation’s past” that Michael Kazin has ever read