Certain Congressfolk seem to think the matter of arming Syrian rebels is "classified" -- and that even includes their own deliberations on the subject! It's like they've all forgotten they answer to us! When even Sen. Wyden doesn't give a straight answer about a decidedly non-classified matter of federal law, you know Congress is getting away with far more than we should ever allow.

Bloomberg sees the economy getting better, largely due to a renewed willingness on the part of Americans to borrow money. I'm not going to discount that notion entirely -- not many folks build a bigger life with money they already have -- but I'm skeptical of the slew of context-free statistics the article offers, and it doesn't tell us exactly how much of that record-setting household net worth comes from the rich households getting richer.

A Washington, D.C. NBC station rejects an anti-Keystone XL ad submitted for airing during a President Obama appearance on the Tonight Show, despite airing many pro-Keystone XL ads earlier. Climate change activists smell the Hand of Big Oil behind the rejection -- but nobody seems to consider that Mr. Obama might have pressured NBC himself, given that the ad would have run while he was on TV. I'd like to be wrong about that, of course.

Ken Buck, the Colorado Republican U.S. Senate nominee in 2010, files papers to run for the Senate again in 2014. They must be doing cartwheels in Mark Udall's office! Seriously, Ken Buck is the guy who a) couldn't ride a huge Republican wave to victory in 2010 b) against Michael Bennet. Michael Bennet! And Ken Buck routinely did Christine O'Donnell one better -- he not only said crazystupid crap, but he blamed other people for the cardinal sin of understanding perfectly well how crazystupid it was. (I'm glad he beat lymphoma, though.)

Popular Science looks at efforts to make body parts with 3-D printers -- body parts as in vital organs like the liver. We're nowhere near there yet, of course -- 3-D printers can make cells, but the cells still have to learn how to talk to other cells -- but it's been a fascinating journey so far, and more uplifting than using 3-D printers to make guns. (I don't particularly oppose 3-D printing guns, though I certainly oppose some of the ninnies doing it.)

Finally, Occupy.com looks at the Green Tea Coalition, in which, as one lobbyist laments, "the Tea Party has formed an unholy alliance with the left." And not just to pass that well-covered solar power mandate, either -- they've also come together to kill a sales-tax hike that would've done a bad job rehabbing public transportation, and a bill that would have stiffened penalties for protesting outside someone's house. I always hoped the Tea Party would figure out the difference between freedom for people and freedom for corporations; now it seems at least some of them are.