A humble attempt to broker the copyright dispute between AP and Shepard Fairey:

Or maybe this?

NYTimes.com:

The changes to the Senate bill will ensure that we have at least 600,000 fewer Americans employed over the next two years.

For the $78 billion dollars Paulson overpaid banks in TARP 1.0, the U.S. could have bailed out California, twice. (Avoiding this bullshit.)

Left-leaning Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg had surgery today for pancreatic cancer — which is nasty stuff.

Ginberg’s was caught early in a cancer screening — she’s already a survivor of colon cancer — which is rare for a cancer that often goes undetected into its advanced stages. The AP is reporting Ginsberg’s 1-cm diameter tumor was removed surgically, the most hopeful course of treatment.

Even so, the 5 year survival rate is only about 15 percent.

Life inside the Wall Street bubble:
“That is pretty draconian — $500,000 is not a lot of money, particularly if there is no bonus” — James F. Reda, executive pay consultant, on Obama’s new pay caps for bailed out CEOs.

It’s hard to overstate what a big deal it is that Tom Daschle is now out of the Obama White House.

As I’ve written about, Daschle has been a sort of Wizard of Oz character in the Obama story. As he exited the Senate, many of his key staffers migrated into Obamaland. And as Obama ramped up his presidential campaign, Daschle provided key advice, and key players from the Daschle mafia came aboard to raise millions and direct policy.

Daschle was, according to one source, a candidate to become Obama’s chief of staff. Instead he maneuvered himself to spearhead Obama’s healthcare policy — both as secretary of HHS and as Obama’s in-White-House healthcare czar — the only Obama appointee who would have had cabinet and super-cabinet status.

Daschle will, I’m sure, continue to play a key role as a sounding board for Obama. But he will not be the pillar of domestic policy Obama clearly envisioned:

Esquire has just published the definitive David Plouffe profile.

The Man Who Made Obama, by Lisa Taddeo