A friend sent me the Muammar Gaddafi/Charlie Sheen quiz. It is remarkably difficult; I only got 50%. Also, it is an unusually interactive and clever posting for a print publication. I guess the Guardian newspaper knows what it is doing.

Kent sent me a list of musical definitions, (see a complete list here) including:
JAZZ: Five men on the same stage all playing different tunes.
OPERA: People singing when they should be talking.
RAP: People talking when they should be singing.

Dan Grobstein File

• “The Financial Industry Has Become So Politically Powerful That It Is Able To Inhibit the Normal Process of Justice And Law Enforcement”
• I’d Happily Take Some of That ‘Decline’ points to The Myth of Japan’s ‘Lost Decades
• Frank Rich jumps from NYT to New York mag.
• Liveblogging World War II: March 1, 1941
• Imminent water disaster in U.S. The water shortage in Atlanta has been ongoing for quite a while & they don't do anything about it. Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone had an article about the banksters scamming one of the southern counties with a bond issue for a water treatment plant. Meanwhile in Pennsylvania they're pumping massive amounts of water into the shale to extract the natural gas and polluting the ground water. A friend lives in a gated community in the Poconos and last year all the fish in their lake died.
• High and Low Thrillers
• Do we all want to become the old Confederacy?
• OPINION   | March 01, 2011
  Paul Krugman: Trains and Freedom
  By PAUL KRUGMAN
  Better than the alternatives.
• OPINION   | March 01, 2011
  Paul Krugman: Dagny Taggart Wept
  By PAUL KRUGMAN
  On the track to collectivism?
• Is McKinsey & Co. the Root of All Evil ?
• Would would Molly Ivins say about Wisconsin?
• Bipartisan duo sues Florida Gov. Scott over rejection of federal high-speed rail money
• What Do Republicans Really Want?
• quote:
  In a nutshell by Mark Kleiman
  David Koch is sitting at a table with a schoolteacher and a Tea Party activist. On the table is a plate with a dozen cookies. The billionaire promptly scoops up 11 of the cookies. He then turns to the tea partier and says, “Watch out for that schoolteacher. He’s in a union, and he wants a piece of your cookie.”
  unquote.
• You Can’t Take The Train to Los Angeles, So The Runway Shouldn’t Be Full of Planes To Boston
• Mr. Plouffe likewise is less available to reporters and party officials and keeps his office television turned off — to tune out the daily distractions of cable TV’s political play by play.
• Frank Rich vs the NYT paywall
• House Republicans’ request to cut nearly all the money for poison control centers perfectly illustrates the thoughtlessness of their austerity bill.
• Ebert Tweet: RIP: Spokesman for the Heart Attack Grill. 
• A Liberal Is a Villager Who’s Been Screwed By a Mortgage Servicer
• Robert Reich (@RBReich) Cynical politics: Walker wants to entrench R power, not cut Wisc deficit. Rs in DC want to defeat O in 2012, not spur the economy.
• 18 and Under:  On the Left Hand, There Are No Easy Answers
  By PERRI KLASS, M.D.
  The riddle of why about 10 percent of people are born with the asymmetry of left-handedness remains.
  Here at work the guy in charge, the exec VP, the sales manager, the former HR person, 2 out of 4 accounting people and 3 others that I've noticed are left handed and this isn't a very big place.