From Froomkin’s White House Briefing column today: video of Mama Duck, six or seven of her children, and the courtwatching press corps running interference for them as they cross a busy Washington street. Rove, duck: which would you rather see on your TV screen? Nolo contendre.

Brad DeLong reads The Economist and quotes from it, thereby teaching me a new Latin phrase: fons et origo, which means