The Americans

I was very pleasantly surprised. The show will live or die by the relationship between the wife and husband KGB sleeper agents. As of episode 1, that relationship is complex and compelling. Shorter review: Keri Russell puts the cold in cold war, but manages to be hot at the same time. I can't imagine they can sustain the contrivances of the plot for very long, but then again, I would have said the same about Breaking Bad...

Can Music Be Perfect? Vol. 26

Aw hell, is this his all-time best song?

Stingy...

Atrios: "For years liberals have been sadly content to pursue conservative ends to achieve liberal goals, but years later it's pretty clear that such things generally don't work. Part of the reason they don't work is because conservatives are stingy assholes." Don't work or are never even tried... case in point: carbon tax. Market-based policies are all well and good, but don't take away my cheap gas.

Your FSA/OWI Photo of the Day

Cut-over land in Resettlement Administration purchase area to be rededicated to forest. Custer State Park, South Dakota. Arthur Rothstein, 1936.

Annals of underrated inventions

The hacksaw.

Your FSA/OWI Photo of the Day

FSA borrower who lives in village La Vallee, St. Croix island, Virgin Islands. Jack Delano, 1941.
Delano or Delacroix?

Your FSA/OWI Photo of the Day

Woman in her garden, Virgin Islands? Jack Delano, 1941.

The Obama agenda

First term: Health care
Second term: Climate change

OK, I might have reversed the order, but this still has a nice ring to it. He can toss fiscal sustainability into the mix with a nice fat carbon tax, but should keep his promise to the 99% by preserving/ enhancing progressive social programs to offset the carbon tax's regressivity.

Et tu, Boehner?