And though the news was rather sad, well I just had to laugh




Michiko Kakutani's review of "A Gate at the Stairs."

"Eyes Wide Open" by Jonathan Lethem

From "In Fed We Trust," by David Wessel

Barney Frank, the congressman from Massachusetts, proposed declaring Monday, September 15, to be Free Market Day. On Sunday, the Fed and the Treasury let Lehman fail; on Tuesday, they took over AIG. "The national commitment to the free market lasted one day," Frank said. "It was Monday."

Article on Barney Frank in the Boston Globe.

Frank on Planet Money.

Obamacare: It's People!



Rick Perlstein's In America, Crazy Is a Preexisting Condition: Birthers, Town Hall Hecklers and the Return of Right-Wing Rage

(via Krugman)