Celebrity watch

On quitting and carny mentors

American politics
Democracy in America

THIS raises the bar for celebrities in politics: Kal Penn is quitting acting to take a job as a public liaison for the Obama adminstration. (Via Entertainment Weekly, but no link because fans of a certain medical drama will get a spoiler.) Meanwhile, Penn Jillette is mulling whether to accept Mr Obama's counterintuitive argument that we should deal with the recession by spending more:


"My carny mentor"? Ultimately, Mr Jillette can't decide whether to accept the Keynesian argument. Too bad—I hear there are still some jobs at Treasury. (H/T: Freakonomics)

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