• Pointing to some smart talk on myths concerning the sequester.
• Laying out three insights on the sequester:  for one, it was supposed to be like a sword of Damocles — whoops.
• Discussing why the sequester is nuts, and I refuse to treat it as some kind of new normal.
• Talking to my friend and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities colleague, Richard Kogan, on how sequestration is likely to play out.
• Analyzing the revised GDP report and showing how contractionary fiscal policy has been pretty relentlessly whacking away at real GDP growth since the Recovery Act faded out.
• Outlining how to solve the sequester:  the key is tax expenditures!
• Lamenting the increasingly dysfunctional sequester politics.
• Explaining why current fiscal policy is damaging real GDP growth — and contributing to a level of austerity that would make a European policymaker proud.
• Considering a study in contrasts:  relative to Congress, Governors actually have to… you know… do stuff.
• Clarifying some confusing sequester numbers.

Music:  an outsourced Friday Musical Interlude, featuring Bach performed by Yo-Yo Ma.