Today's Reading/Listening List

Two weeks until opening day of regular season baseball!

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Lil' Timmy "Turbo" Geithner is releasing the long-promised details on the administration's toxic asset security plan. They want public-private partnerships to buy up the bad assets that are causing the credit crunch.

Question: What private entity is going to participate in this relationship when they would clearly be the junior partners? Who would want this government dictating salaries?

AP - Treasury's toxic asset plan could cost $1 trillion

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GovExec.com - Obama releases guidance on acceptable stimulus spending
"Whenever a project comes up for review, we're going to ask a simple question," the president said. "Does it advance the core mission of the Recovery Act? Does it jump-start job creation? Does it lay the foundation for lasting prosperity?"

Umm, sir, with all due respect, much of your Recovery Act doesn't advance that mission.

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Politico - Is BHO punch drunk?

Politico - Sen. Conrad looks to cut BO's budget

Reuters - Economic crisis dire, risk of unrest and war - IMF

Gov. Mark Sanford in the WSJ - Why South Carolina Doesn't Want "Stimulus"

NRO - Democracy in Europe: It’s lethargic and uninspiring — and ours could be like it soon.

NRO - Going Galt: Ayn Rand’s books are booming — but what about her ideas?

The Bulletin -Obama Continues To Set Records For Incompetence

Science's 10 most beautiful physics experiments

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Last week I finished up a chronological listening tour of classical music. This week I am beginning a new tour of the non-classical music in my collection from the late 1920's through 2009. Starting with:

Nipper's Greatest Hits of the 1930s and assorted Benny Goodman. I was surprised I couldn't find a youtube clip of Cab Calloway's Zah Zuh Zaz.