The president reminded us he was making a little Jeopardy joke the other day as he introduced Joe the Plumber Spy, Richard Cordray, as top consumer bureaucrat.

Another joke is the way Obama likes to remind us he’s one of the elite and we’re not – unless, of course, we really are keeping hundreds of thousands of dollars we don’t need. He recently did this by targeting bestselling authors, ahem, like himself, for higher taxes. (Here’s a rude bestseller who doesn’t want to join the club). Other times he likes to try a little upwardly mobile bonding with moneybags like Mark Zuckerberg .

Gregg Easterbrook says if Obama wants to pay more taxes, he should just do it.

Mrs. Murdoch slapped silly her husband’s Parliament pie assailant yesterday.  No word on whether the guy smuggled the fully assembled shaving creme concoction in his pants or if he assembled it on site. In any case he managed to achieve the impossible – not by outsmarting security –  but by turning Murdoch into a victim, for a moment.

David Cameron is now calling for more media regulation. Here’s an LA Times editorial.

When your local school district needs to pass a levy – or else, what’s the first thing they threaten to cut?  The Assistant to the Associate Director of Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum Enrichment?  Hell, no.