Michael B. Duff

In addition to its roughly $400 billion (and growing) of outstanding government debt, the Greek number crunchers had just figured out that their government owed another $800 billion or more in pensions. Add it all up and you got about $1.2 trillion, or more than a quarter-million dollars for every working Greek. Against $1.2 trillion in debts, a $145 billion bailout was clearly more of a gesture than a solution. And those were just the official numbers; the truth is surely worse.

And shame on all you evil capitalist haters who thought otherwise!

The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Despite being the work of one man, Salman Khan, this 1600+ video library is the most-used educational video resource as measured by YouTube video views per day and unique users per month. We are complementing this ever-growing library with user-paced exercises–developed as an open source project–allowing the Khan Academy to become the free classroom for the World.

Greatest opening line to a movie review ever: "He’s an Irishman, she’s a seal. It’ll never work."

A few hours ago, On Faith co-moderator Jon Meacham made a poignant plea to Jones on "Morning Joe." It was an extraordinary moment of television — not only because Meacham made his entreaty on religious grounds, but also because of anchor Mika Brzezinski's refusal to let Jones speak. [Keep watching to see Jones called 'scum'.]

My mother could not be more proud of me, and of her adopted son Gabriel, but mostly of me. She was proud of me well before I deserved it, and was made to endure much as I transitioned from absolutely insufferable teenager to an adult who had found a way to get paid for being insufferable. I have told you that she loves me, and I have told you that she has a denim shirt with a matching cap that has "penny-arcade.mom" stitched into them by a device in a mall kiosk. But I have not told you about the three text messages she sent on Saturday night, which read in order:

I just played Halo!, followed by

I am powning right now, and then an

Awwww yeah, as though… God only knows why she would say something like that. She likes PAX.

Craigslist reacted to this as any responsible business would. It went to extraordinary lengths to cooperate with law enforcement and encouraged its buyers to beware. But in today’s hair-trigger regulatory climate, cooperation is not enough. Corruption must be pulled out, root and branch, while the guardians of public safety make speeches in the foreground.