Snack Break

+ A psychiatric "hospital" in Hollywood, Florida, known as the Hollywood Pavilion has just been nabbed in a massive Medicare fraud investigation. Five people affiliated with this facility - including the CEO - have been charged with bilking Medicare to the tune of over $50,000,000. Well, of course. Psych wards commit fraud. What else is new?

+ Wal-Mart has been around for 50 years, but it wasn't until today that there was a worker strike against multiple Wal-Mart locations. Employees of 9 Los Angeles area Wal-Marts have gone on strike in what is the biggest worker action ever against the hated retail giant.

+ The national press corps missed a huge Obama rally that drew 30,000 people in Madison, Wisconsin, today because of a mix-up by airport security officials in Denver. Is anybody actually naive enough to believe the officials' snafu was accidental? I'm not.