Couple of things

- Rep. Paul Broun Jr. says something silly ... per the norm.

- I suppose this fits with what various folks have said, which is that fall and winter would be unusually wet and cool.

- This is spot on, for a variety of reasons. For starters, there really isn't anything left to cut anymore that won't result in severe pain for local communities. Secondly, evaluating the tax breaks throughout the state's code is a common sense move that enables officials to determine if a particularly policy is achieving its stated goal. If it's not, it ought to be scuttled. If it is, it ought to be studied further.

- Ezra Klein on why a 'weak' dollar isn't really a bad thing.