“Brian, would you find out what my position is on contraception?” [NYT]

A good piece from Noonan – choice quote:

“What, really, is Mrs. Clinton doing? She is having the worst case of cognitive dissonance in the history of modern politics.”

Years ago, I read Pinchbeck’s Breaking Open the Head, and found it to be a good and interesting book, even if somewhat inconclusive.

Somehow I missed Rolling Stone‘s profile of him over a year ago. It’s a really interesting story – his influences and where they took him. I saw Pinchbeck on the Colbert Report a few months ago talking about his new book, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl and I was quite confused.

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Home prices here dropped 26% – in February.

Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen pen a good article on Politico about the endless Clinton BS.

“The notion of the Democratic contest being a dramatic cliffhanger is a game of make-believe… Journalists, for instance, have become partners with the Clinton campaign in pretending that the contest is closer than it really is.”

I agree wholeheartedly – the media is accused of being in love with Obama – but, I ask: had he lost twelve contests in a row as Clinton did prior to Ohio, would he have been portrayed as still relevant?

Seth Godin asks, how many record label executives does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Some great emergency tips, with visuals.

Why Bear Stearns? A quick lesson in the trillions cooking beneath, and why the Fed cares, and why you should care.

JHK put it this way:

“Over the weekend, the Federal Reserve engineered a $30-billion dollar Saint Paddy’s day present for the JP Morgan bank by handing them the corpse of Bear Stearns. The object of the game is to prevent the ‘assets’ of Bear Stearns from going to the auction block, on which they would be discovered to be nearly worthless, which would instantly render all similar assets held by the other big banks to be similarly worthless, and would result in a universal margin call that would pretty much unwind the hallucinated ‘wealth’ acquired over the past ten years.”

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Len Hart over at The Existential Cowboy has a thorough and thoughtful piece on this.

The rare moment I agree with Bush.  Let the market correct itself.