What Do You Think? -- Mulligan on the Financial Crisis

"Wall Street Will Drown Alone"

How I Want to Be Remembered

"He had a clear, honest face. I found my fondness for him difficult to reconcile with what I knew of his enthusiasm for killing people and making small children cry." -- Rory Stewart, on Abdul Haq

Gorilla War

"Nervous Old Male"

Post title and link courtesy of James and Sixpoint Craft Ales.

His Name Is Henry Paulson

His name is Henry Paulson.

Rich Cat, Poor Cat

"[T]he drafting effort continued through the night on both sides of Capitol Hill — with pizza on the House side, and Thai food in the Senate."

The Second-Smartest Guys in the Room

"Wide-Ranging Ethics Scandal Emerges at Interior Dept." ("Modeled on a private-sector energy company," indeed. "[S]exual relationships with prohibited sources cannot, by definition, be arms-length.” On you, maybe.)

Crosscut Sententia

"About Sarah Palin: an e-mail from Wasilla"

Still Better than the Mainstream Media

The Daily Show on the Sarah Palin gender card

An Insightful Take on China and Zhang Yimou

A comment on a post on Roger Ebert's Journal

LOL

The Times reports: Ms. Palin, who served for years as the mayor of Wasilla, received words of support from her successor, Dianne Keller on Tuesday. The Politico’s Kenneth P. Vogel reports that Mayor Keller suggested to reporters who have descended on the small town “that Palin’s six years at the helm of Wasilla, population 7,000, combined with her 20 months as governor of Alaska leave her better equipped to handle the executive branch than her GOP running mate, John McCain, or his Democratic competitors Barack Obama and Joe Biden, all of whom are U.S. senators.”

The Disgusting Disenfranchisement of (Ex-)Felons

"Obama: The Price of Being Black"

An Unexplored Facet of Stalin's Evil Edifice

"Banished: 'The Forsaken' by Tim Tzouliadis"