"Chelsea Hotel" - Lloyd Cole
Superb cover of a great Leonard Cohen song about Janis Joplin -- from the "I'm Your Fan" compilation, a series of very good Cohen covers. I think Amy Winehouse's sad demise made me think of it.
- This chart, posted at the Daily Dish the other day, on the cost of paperwork, among other things, burdening our health care system is quite instructive. In a rational world, we would be having a discussion about this, rather than the debt ceiling.
- A happy news story for once. And a happy story about organized labor. I feel like I get one or two of those a decade.
- So Boehner can't get enough votes to pass his debt plan in the House. I am trying to remember the last time a Speaker of the House got repudiated like this by his own caucus.
I am going to try to actually write something tonight. What's on your minds?
