Going Gaga, link-o-rama

Who could have known that Lady Gaga and Elton John would do such a great job in a duet at the Grammys ? Although, in retrospect, it makes perfect sense. So what else do we know now? We know that George Packer of the New Yorker thinks Blackberries and Twitter are all a bit much, and that he calls his wife to check his email: Stop the world , The New Yorker We also know the FT's leader-writers like to mix with the metaphors ("threw a grenade ... no silver bullet"), and think President Obama's bank proposals are a good thing: The fight begins , Financial Times According to the LA Times, among the Democrats on Capitol Hill, "behind the scenes party leaders have nearly settled on a strategy to salvage the massive legislation" on healthcare reform: Democrats quietly working to resuscitate healthcare overhaul , LA Times Over-achieving nerds worry about not achieving enough: Type-A-Plus Students Chafe at Grade Deflation , New York Times Late on Friday we discovered that the Obama administration wants an extra $5bn to spend on the US nuclear arsenal to, ah, make it safer: Obama to seek major increase in nuclear weapons funding , McClatchy