From Rod Dreher

• Sorry but you won’t retire. As Jeff Culbreath has said, not necessarily bad if your job is your calling but often it’s not. Oh man. I had better win the lottery, because I’m going to be intolerable as a septuagenarian employee.
• Media bias, media blandness. Religion coverage: The heroes in these stories are always the mushy-middlemen, or at least those who have learned how to speak the language of mushy-middleness persuasively to journalists.
• Life according to Seventeen. It’s a kind of brilliant analysis of how American teenage girlhood is constructed by the media. Like magazines aimed at grown women. Cracked nailed this: play keepaway with her self-esteem so she buys the sponsors’ products. I’m anything but anti-business but yes.
• Now it might cost up to $1 trillion to rescue Fannie and Freddie, in what one insider calls “the mother of all bailouts.” James Poulos says: It’s one thing for a government to spend more money than we have. It’s another to spend more than we can imagine. Cross that threshold, and people will start to ask: how imaginary is the value of this unimaginable amount of money?