Today I am a hopeful person. CHB is still publishing; Clinton's lead is growing over the discarded grapefruit; the Mariners are only one game back with two games to play, and one of the teams ahead of them lost today; the weather has broken; the week after next I'll be at Disney World...

A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich