Russell Peters on "CBS This Morning"

Russell Peters was on the morning news show CBS This Morning last week. In case you missed it, here's the story and the interview:





I didn't realize he made $21 million in 2012. This is roughly $20,997,000 more than I made in total during my entire six-year run as a stand-up comic.

First Lady goes on incognito Target run!

This is why Michelle Obama is just plain awesome! Apparently the Target store didn't know until the cashier recognized her. The store manager was quoted in the CNN article:

""We did not have advance notice; it was as big a surprise to us as it was to everyone else," she said.

She continued, "In hindsight, there was a sweep, but it was not obvious to us beforehand. When she left we thought 'Oh, that's what that was!'""

CBS News: Hot mic catches Boehner and Biden talking about golf

So a guy named 'Joe' and a guy named 'John' were talking about golf one day when a little speech happened:



I'd love to be the staffer whose voice we hear at the end say "the mics are live".

Left behind in America: Who's to blame for the wealth divide?

It's hard to say much more about this article than the graph from it.

United States of Influence: Why is Congress a millionaires club?

Great post on CBSNews.com today as part of their "United States of Influence" series:

"As a congressional candidate, "every waking minute of every day is devoted to that campaign," said Doug Heye, a former spokesman for the Republican National Committee. "It requires an extraordinary amount of time, and it becomes difficult for a lot of people if you have a full-time job... When you've got a mortgage to pay and college tuition and braces to pay for, those kinds of day-to-day, real-life expenses come before putting six months into a campaign.""

At what point will people start feeling like they're being treated like serfs?