Yesterday was sufficiently newsless that I saw little point in compiling this page (isn’t it liberating? none of that “gotta-put-out-the-paper-anyway” tyranny I lived with for 35 years), but today there’s more happening:
- Senate advances jobless benefits legislation (WashPost) — After all that Obama drama, the job gets done.
- S.C. jobless rate shrinks to 10.7% (CRBG) — But only because 8,000 of us gave up and quit looking for a job…
- Graham is panel’s lone GOP vote for Kagan (WSJ) — Which made him the only senator on the committee of either party not voting slavishly along partisan lines. If the Republicans don’t want him any more, can the UnParty have him?
- Sidebar on Graham political risk (NPR) — Pretty much all the national media are watching to see how Lindsey weathers the risky experience of thinking for himself. They’ve seen, with Bob Inglis, how risky that can be in SC. Actually, a better sidebar might be the WashPost one I cited on a previous post.
- Cameron: Don’t blame BP for Lockerbie bomber release (BBC) — The new Tory PM, visiting this country, sticks up for the oil giant back home.
- E-Books Top Hardcovers at Amazon (NYT) — I thought that was kind of an interesting take-note-of sort of thing. As the NYT said in its lede, “Monday was a day for the history books — if those will even exist in the future.”
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Interesting about the Kindle. but then, you can get a lot of books more cheaply that way (free for some of the classics) and you can set them to read to you when you’re on the road.
Got my wife a Kindle two weeks ago.. She’s already putting her old hardcopies on ebay…