Brooke Shields — We’re Off To See The Wizard, on The Muppet Show.

Not wanting to hear bad news turns into refusing to hear bad news, which… inevitably, turns into bad news.

In one of the most hilarious history fails I’ve ever seen, Nancy Pelosi actually compares the financial reform bill to the New Deal:

[This week's Wall Street-reform legislation has] the boldness and enthusiasm of the New Deal but with less government.

Felix Salmon says that Elizabeth Warren is a shoo-in for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, not because of any inside knowledge he has, but because progressives have turned up the heat so much to make it too painful for the Administration not to nominate her.

I’m a bit more skeptical about it than Salmon, but it’s true that progressives organized around the Warren nomination in ways that I wish they would have at some points in the FinReg fight. It speaks well that advocates have understood the importance of the regulators writing the rules as much as, if not more than, Congress granting the authority.

Don Blankenship: proof positive that some sort of rigorous psychological profiling and the presence of a conscience should be mandatory before hiring a candidate to run the joint.

Video of Van Jones speech, with introduction by Howard Dean

Liveblogging the NN10 session on the BP oil disaster.

One highlight of the week in Sin City during Netroots Nation 2010 for me will surely be my panel Saturday at 1:45 Las Vegas time (4:45 ET). Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Center for Constitutional Rights Director Vince Warren, Matthew Alexander, American Prospect’s Adam Serwer, and I will talk about why we need to close Gitmo and how we can do it.

The bigger issue that environmental advocates had in the Netroots Nation Environment Caucus was the total failure of the Democrats to accept the challenge of protecting a boiling planet, despite an overwhelming voting majority in both Houses. This isn’t just coming from people outside the system, but from within it.

I’m watching a panel on online surveillance with Safir Ahmed (who edited Anatomy of Deceit and all of Markos’ books), Josh Gerstein, Farhana Khera, Laura Murphy, and Adam Serwer.