Tuesday morning roundup

Depends on how you define success. "Those measures" also led to suicides among people who'd devoted their lives to those historic vineyards.

Calm down, people. Change takes time. Besides, thue stimulus did a lot for Iowa. Oh, and for the record, it was the Bush administration that intervened to help failed financial institutions.

Amazing what people will try to sell you. I actually know someone who got into personal life coaching--the linked article is actually about gratuitous credit monitoring, but life coaching is referenced as an analogous crock--and it struck me as a bunch of crap from the start.