Seriously, it is.  It’s so far ahead of Windows Vista that I’m never going back.  I’d encourage anyone who has the ability (Yale students, for instance) to immediately upgrade to Windows 7 for free.  It took me a total of 3 hours, and has made me a very happy man.

And Windows Live Writer is amazing too.

• Obama says healthcare “shouldn’t be political“.
• Rich Lowry discusses why exactly Obama’s playing the Urgent Politics of Now.
• Greg Mankiw points to opposition of left-leaning Bill Gale at Brookings and Clintonite Jeff Frankel of Harvard as proof that healthcare reform has swung too far left.
• Americans now trust Obama 54%-42%.  That’s still 30 points higher than Tim Geithner’s numbers.

• No one knows where Roy Halladay’s going to end up.  My guess is Philadelphia, if he gets traded.
• Borders is trying to cash in on teen readers.
• Half-Blood Prince sells $160 million in 5 days worth of North American tickets.  And it hasn’t even hit IMAX yet.
• You should read Janet Maslin’s hillarious review of Ben Mezrich’s latest pseudofiction.
• Harvard Econ prof is also semi-pro powerlifter.

• Adam and I were discussing use and misuse Twitter, and today the WSJ suggests that companies are beginning to use Twitter effectively.
• 25% of Britons believe the moon landings (all of them) were faked.
• An Open Letter to the Obama Administration from Central and Eastern European leaders.
• In USA Today – Americans disapprove of Obama’s handling of healthcare and the economy. (52% say they call for too much expansion of government power)
• Re: Obama’s Healthcare Plan, Mickey Kaus tries to remember a time that a President effectively campaigned for an issue while in office.
• Finally, why Japan’s awesome cell phones haven’t made it overseas.

Louis C.K. waxes comedic and philosophical about how nobody’s happy although everything’s awesome nowadays.