Next Up: Glenn Greenwald

President Obama and Paul Krugman had an off the record dinner conversation. That makes me feel a lot better. The President has mentioned numerous times that he did not want to get caught up in the White House bubble, but it may not be possible for the president to completely avoid the bubble effect of the presidency. Sitting face-to-face with Krugman is a great way of penetrating that bubble. Krugman has gone to great lengths not to talk about the meeting, omitting all mention of it from his blog until today when he wrote, "Andrew Leonard and Calculated Risk want to know why I didn't blog about dinner at the White House. Um, because the conversation was off the record."

That call for a dedication: here's "Loose Lips" by Kimya Dawson: