Last night I asked you: what’s the dumbest thing you’ve ever done. And I kicked it off by sharing with you one of the stupidest things I’ve ever done (almost blowing up a gas station when I was in High School.) And now here are some of your responses.

In this edition TPM Reader RB learned how not to take off your sweater while riding your bike on a busy street in San Francisco … Read More

Last night I asked you: what’s the dumbest thing you’ve ever done. And I kicked it off by sharing with you one of the stupidest things I’ve ever done (almost blowing up a gas station when I was in High School.) And now here are some of your responses.

We’re starting with TPM Reader SM describing how she ended up licking the cord on her MacBook to make it work better. Read More

If you missed Ezra Klein’s piece over the weekend recounting the Obama Administration’s early responses to the financial crisis and resultant economic collapse, give it a read.

It’s an important marker as the history of that pivotal time in late 2008 and early 2009 begins to be written.

When the Senate votes on the President Obama’s jobs bill this evening, probably sometime after 5:30 ET, pay close attention to how many Democratic senators defect. Republicans plan to filibuster the bill, and it is unlikely to get the 60 votes necessary to move it forward. So we know going in that this bill isn’t going to pass. But how many Dems line up to support it — or more importantly how many fail to line up — will be the difference between whether Democrats come out of the vote with a clear political message or a muddied result where both sides share the blame for not doing anything.