Wednesday morning roundup

Seriously: when you get behind the wheel, put down the phone.

The hidden costs of health care as we know it, explained well. For a similar, understandable explanation of the climate bill, see last night's Daily Show.

The Metro has serious issues.

Mark Bittman rocks my culinary world. I'm not kidding: the Post recently updated its recipe finder so that you can limit your search by factors such as "healthy" and "fast," with "fast" defined as under an hour. I don't think I've ever spent an hour on a single recipe, nor do I think I'll ever want to. What's the point?