Can Matt Taibbi save America?...and other weekend reading.

Can Matt Taibbi save America? - From Rolling Stone: Taibbi strikes again with a stunner on insider trading. "I've seen the SEC send agents overseas in a simple insider-trading case to investigate profits of maybe $2,000," says Brent Baker, a former senior counsel for the commission. "But they did nothing to stop this."

Oh Wells: Is Wells Fargo Bank a ticking time bomb?

From the Weekly Standard: Barack Obama is often described as an inspiring figure, in the vaunted tradition of Reagan and Kennedy, who can arouse in his hearers a sense of great purpose, and set them to dreaming great dreams. He's a fine speaker, but Reagan and Kennedy inspired by their message: the idea that the country is unique among nations, has a singular mission to promote freedom everywhere; in effect, that the country is great. On this point, Obama is dumb... H/T to T from the Bay Area.

Tough call: Am I a liberal conservative or a conservative liberal? Probably more of a liberal conservative, actually. But I also an occasional socialist...with a muscular libertarian streak on certain issues...right now I'm calling myself a Frank Capra democrat. (small d) or an "It's a Wonderful Life Socialist" (read FBI Considered 'It's a Wonderful Life" Communist propaganda.) ...or a "You Can't Take It With You libertarian"....who knows.

Amelia: Interesting look at the upcoming Amelia Earhart movie

We can have sex AFTER you take out the trash and do the dishes! Household chores apparently more foreplay than work