Linkage. Politics first:
I was at home in Brooklyn, holding my six-week-old baby on the couch, when I saw the second plane crash into the World Trade Center on TV. I watched the smoking pit of the ruins from the roof of my apartment building as bits of memo paper and ash drifted on the winds to my neighborhood. I was there on 9/11, and 9/12, and 9/13. You’ll excuse me if I don’t feel warm nostalgia for the lingering smell of burnt airplane fuel, and metal, and bodies.
:: But are “frivolous lawsuits” the real cause of high health care costs? The short answer is no. (Well, color me shocked.)
(And another by Mr. Benen:)
Three from Matthew Yglesias:
Non-Politics:
:: Being a Beatles fan is a curse as much as a blessing.
:: Daniel Snyder Is a Dwarf Dung-beetle. (That’s the post title, but it’s pretty indicative. The way NFL teams extort their fans is nauseating.)
:: I’ll be honest: I don’t know what the future of NASA is right now. Worse? NASA doesn’t know either.
All for this week.