Hall is a bargain if he’s happy; a penny spent is a penny wasted if he’s going to be a diva. (Just don’t put him on Steve Smith one-on-one if they run up against Carolina in the playoffs.) But he likes to win and be around good players, so for this year at least, he’ll probably be a good team guy in Washington.

RFK Jr. doesn’t fit that agenda, nor do the people who just don’t like hormones and genetically modified food but can’t put forward a scientific rationale for banning them. A rejection of Republicans no-regulation regime is not an embrace of irrational regulation. However, we need to double the size of inspection staff to monitor both U.S. and foreign produced food, drugs and cosmetics. Obama can’t retreat in the face of Republican bitching about an increase in the size of government — he has to make the case that the number of government regulators has to grow in proportion to the amount of stuff produced, or else the government cannot do its job.

Yes, I realize that’s the same as saying the Care Bears will come down and show them the way.