Two short anecdotes from this weekend in Washington:

1) Seen on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue -- a vanity license place  that said B INSURD

2) Listening to "Marketplace" in the car Friday afternoon with my not-quite-nine year old, (born and bred, for better or worse, inside the Beltway) as two commentators debated whether health reform or revamping financial regulation should be the top congressional priority. This confused my son, who asked my [predictable] opinion and then formed his own. "You know, we really need to do health care first, because if the economists don't have health care, they could get sick and die and then no one would be left to fix the stock market." 

From his mouth to the Senate's ears...