• This list of Christie "liabilities" (he doesn't hate gay marriage, he thinks sharia law alarmists are "crazies") makes me like him a little more.
• Trust in government is at an all-time low; former OMB director Peter Orszag proposes a novel solution: make it even less transparent. You can't harbor doubts about what you don't know is happening! (I believe "stealth democracy" was the platform Darth Vader ran on.)
• Not unrelated: some constructive criticism of the Occupy Wall Street protests and what I call the "giant puppet school of activism" in general. "I want to know what democracy looks like, not what it smells like."
• Florida moving its primary to January may put Christie speculators out of their misery.
• Spoon fork bacon. All that's missing is ice cream.
