TWN blogger and syndicated columnist Brian Till has a piece that is making the rounds where he admits as a free-riding news consumer who rarely pays for anything he’s reading to his own culpability in destroying the newspaper industry.

The Federal Reserve Board just reduced the federal funds rate to a range between zero and 1/4 of a point. Unbelievable. The Fed is also moving on a bundle of other fronts to hold this economy together and to try and get loans and financing moving again in the system. We have become Japan. ….

These three can fix any bad mood.

This is an interesting little clip of Bill Clinton discussing Richard Nixon with Elvis Costello. When I helped organize a major Nixon Center conference in Washington in April 1995, Bill Clinton keynoted the event — and I could sense his admiration of and intrigue about many aspects of former President Richard Nixon.

Move over Schwarzenegger. Barack Obama works out every day. EVERY DAY. (Damn him!) I get the pool reports of his comings and goings.

John Kerry takes Foreign Relations. Lieberman keeps Homeland Security. . .

I have very mixed feelings about the news that Caroline Kennedy is now seeking appointment to Hillary Clinton’s soon to be vacated Senate seat.

I think it was pretty poor form of a journalist to throw anything and to engage in soft violence against President Bush during his press conference in Iraq.

I will write much more about this subject in coming days, but I am increasingly worried about the framing that America’s next President and his team are applying to Iraq and Afghanistan.

I just posted a post that I have taken down. I got punk’d or whatever they call it. Here is a brilliantly written “fictional” transcript — that appeared on Daily Kos — but I thought it was real. Lots of profanity, but you will like it.