YA THINK? Uncertainty Over Greece Drives Down Markets. Meanwhile Jim Bennett emails to wonder, cruelly, if Gisele Bundchen still insists on being paid in Euros . . . .

HAPPY TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY! Arrh!

ANDREW MCCARTHY: THE SOLYNDRA FRAUD. “The Solyndra debacle is not just Obama-style crony socialism as usual. It is a criminal fraud. That is the theory that would be guiding any competent prosecutor’s office in the investigation of a scheme that cost victims — in this case, American taxpayers — a fortune. Fraud against the United States is one of the most serious felony offenses in the federal penal law. It is even more serious than another apparent Solyndra violation that has captured congressional attention: the Obama administration’s flouting of a statute designed to protect taxpayers.”

I’m sure the Justice Department will be right on it. But if they’re not, might there be qui tam actions?

J.E. DYER: My Money: I Deserve To Keep It All. “If any of us doesn’t deserve to keep everything he has earned, then that man is a slave. Alternatively, he is less than human; he has no moral standing, and no unalienable rights inhere in him. He is like a farm animal.”

That’s pretty much how the political class sees us.

ROGER SIMON: Obama And The Death Of The Cool. “Our media, our journos, depend on being thought cool and, consequently and perhaps more importantly, thinking of themselves as cool. When they suspect they are not, they begin to behave like worker bees when queen is killed. They tend to run around and act out. After a while, they seem lost. Their numbers dwindle. This is just because cool depended on a hive mind in the first place. It was little more than fad. We are well rid of it. And in part because cool is gone, the remaining liberals are the new reactionaries. They are the ones trapped in the past, the enemies of the future. Not that there are so many liberals anymore, outside the media.”

DEFENDING OBAMA with an argument that was used many years ago — lamely — to defend Ross Perot.

From the comments: “The feminists will give the President a pass, though. Like they gave Ted Kennedy all those years.”

THE U.S. ENTITLEMENT SYSTEM: “Morally bankrupt?”