Professor Obama Is Not Happy About Lecturing If You Aren't Going To Do The Reading

• Tina Brown's new Recovery.com, a popular new Internet Web-site in which users upload pictures of their cats and categorize them according to their appeal, is quite popular, making it all the more frustrating that America is not paid per pageview. [ Top of the Ticket ]

• Professor Obama will now give banks little "stress tests" that will determine their instability and whether or not the banks have been doing their secondary reading despite not participating in the seminar discussion.  [ The Atlantic ]

• More Americans think Barry is going to handle this economy thing okay, thanks to his big convincing speech and probably the comparatively spectacular failure of weird Bobby Jindal. [ Daily Beast ]

• There is literally nothing that displeases Republicans more than children with working parents receiving health insurance—watch their stillness conceal the hatred. Dusty old robot Ronald Reagan stayed still too, in his grave.  [ Daily Kos ]

• Congress' own Uncle Junior, John McCain, boozily rolled out from underneath some umbrella in the Arizona desert to criticize the war effort in Afghanistan. [ CNN Political Ticke  r ]