From the November issue of Automobile Magazine, we learn the hard numbers from this summer’s Cash-for-Clunkers program.

• Great news.
• Even more change you can believe in.
• No ‘bureaucrats’ getting between you and your doctor?
• Woman’s gotta know her place.
• Someone finally shut this self-promoting nutjob down. 
• Would’ve loved to have been a fly on the wall for this.
• But…but…we have more czars than Imperial Russia!
• Oy.
• I blame Obama.

Why risk any change when things are already going so relatively badly?

Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood – Double Trouble.

What’s on your mind?

What a baby! What a douche! Huntington Beach councilman has collected a dozen street cleaning tickets because he can’t be bothered to move his car on street sweeping day. And now after his latest ticket, he’s threatening to resign. Good riddance. First term councilman Devin Dwyer told the Orange County Register:

I’m enraged. The practice of extorting funds out of us so they can pay for different things just drives me crazy. … If I can’t get the change, then why am I even here?

Dwyer thinks street sweepers should make beeping noises so residents can run out and move their cars, and that if a car is parked, the sweeper should just come back later.

Yes, I know, there is practically nothing that a Fox News person can say or do that’s vile enough to cost them their job. Bill O’Reilly is still batting cleanup even after being exposed as a creepy sexual harasser, and Glenn Beck just keeps on catering to the right wing’s most paranoid and dangerous elements while shedding advertisers like a leaky centrifuge. But I think Shep Smith has really gone beyond the pale here:

questions for COINiacs and antiCOINiacs

On August 25, we joined with DFA and Credo asking local organizations to pass a resolution demanding the inclusion of a strong public option in any final health care bill.  The final language, which was drafted by Dante Atkins, can be found here.

Sam Stein reports that the Nebraska Democratic Party passed it today in a nearly unanimous vote.  Which is significant, because Ben Nelson remains one of the biggest obstacles to passing a public option

Another article obediently tying the Zazi investigation to the PATRIOT reauthorization.

I once called AFR “utterly and completely useless,” but it appears I was wrong. They do have a purpose, namely — invite a big funder, Larry Summers’ Deputy Director of the White House Economic Council (Diana Farrell) and an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (Michael Barr) to a weekly meeting run by a lobbyist (Erik Smith), to demonstrate what happens if you play ball and never question the Summers squad.