Obama has waded...oops...dipped a tentative toe into the gun control debate, with the usual results. In an editorial, he stressed 79 times he believes in the right to bear arms and gun owners are "our friends and neighbors" - with no mention of assault weapons. Less than cowed, the NRA responded the problem isn't guns but the media, courts and mental health system - and then declined to join White House meetings on the issue. While you're waiting for real change, did you know you can look up your favorite moments of mayhem in an Internet Movie Firearms Database?

The increasingly-incoherent Glenn Beck is ranting that the disasters striking Japan are a message from God, and we better start following "Moses' big top ten" and "buckle up." Or: we could actually help.

A new survey shows that rich people only feel rich if they have at least $7.5 million. Millionaires also feel more upbeat than they have for years; their 5% of the country now controls 56% of its wealth. But listen to Samuel Johnson: "Avarice is always poor." Let them eat cake laced with shame.

“Wealth is relative, and to some extent the more you have the more you realize how much more you need.” - a rich guy