Today’s must-reads:
- GM’s Money Trees (MoJo)
- GOP Candidate in NY-23 Special Election Drops Out, Endorses Dem Instead of Conservative: How it happened (Politico)
- Dems hoping to hold governorships in Virginia and New Jersey (NYT)
- Neocon Smear on “Iran’s Man in Washington” (MoJo)
- Climate bill facing long odds in Senate (WaPo)
- Krugman: “We need much faster growth” (NYT)
- The Chance Of Schwarzenegger’s ‘F*ck You’ Acrostic Being Random: One In A Trillion (Wonk Room)
- Why gay marriage, getting high, and going to Cuba will soon be legal. (Slate)
- Shorter Dean Baker: Wall Street is Stupid, Doesn’t Know Math (The American Prospect)
- DVR Not So Bad After All (NYT)
- Who Came Out Of The Honduran Crisis Looking The Best? Hillary. (The New Republic)
- Ezra Klein and Robert Lazsewski on the public option and opting out (The News Hour)
- Note to Matt Continetti: Liz Lemon = Not A Real Person (MoJo)
- “The Kansas City Space Pirates are using a fast-climbing robot named Maryann and lasers shot through telescopes.” (io9)
- No, Seriously; Tom Zarek was Frakking Right (Lawyers, Guns, and Money)
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