Will Bank For Food

• An audit by the General Accounting Office shows major Pentagon weapons systems are billions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule. [ Washington Post ]

• Wall Street fat cats approve of the Treasury's proposed regulatory overhaul. Everybody else hates it, including credit unions and lobbyists and Chris Dodd. [ Wall Street Journal ]

• Oh look another major financial entity is failing! Today the prize goes to Swiss bank UBS, which wrote down another $19 billion in losses. [ New York Times ]

• The Pentagon has billions of dollars for weapons systems but no space on a military flight for a congresswoman's domestic partner. [ Politico ]

• Everybody's ignoring poor old John McCain because he's boring, and nobody wants to give him money because they're still sore about Romney. [ Washington Post ]

• Skyrocketing food and fuel costs mean that, more than ever, the world's hungry are totally screwed. [ Los Angeles Times ]