Updating for the sake of updating...

I'm in the process of moving and working full time and running all over the place, but I had to give a shoutout to Nation editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel's fantastic column in The Washington Post (Not that she particularly needs my shoutouts, but wev). A flavor:

We learned once more, at a very high price, that markets need laws and limits. Self-regulating markets are a myth, voluntary regulation a cover for corruption.

Cleaning up the Washington mess was, back in the day, a central part of Obama's attraction as a force of change. That's why the deals cut in the health-care legislation, so patently part of the old way of doing things, were dismaying. That's why bailing out the banks without vigorously reorganizing them has been so corrosive. And that's why the president's halting, at times inarticulate, response to the catastrophe in the gulf has been painful to witness.

The whole thing is a fantastic read. Will post more when I'm not quite so tired and have caught up on things. Whee!