• How to Fix the Army: Sack All the Generals (Wired) Considering the fact that we have more generals now than we did at the height of WWII, there is a lot of deadwood there.
• Fire Jennifer Rubin (Washington City Paper) From the former ombudsman for the Washington Post.
• Russell Simmons Apologizes For Harriet Tubman Sex Tape (Talking Points Memo) Best hed of the day.
• No Banker Left Behind (New York Times) The New York Times Editorial Board recognizes that Detroit’s planned bankruptcy filing is about bailing out the banksters.
• Not all secrets are alike (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) A good essay making the obvious point that most state secrets are more about avoiding embarrassment, not real security.

I really want to know the backstory.