Christopher Hitchens has some words for whoever wrote the screenplay for The King’s Speech.

• The memoir is about to go to another level: Jesse James to write a book.

• Justin Taylor talks to Impose.

Politics

• Libyan air force pilots don’t want to drop bombs, so they’re seeking asylum in Malta.

• Ezra Klein does the math to see if state and local workers in Wisconsin are overpaid.

• George Bush (the first) and Bill Clinton to open a center for political civility.

Brooklyn

• Because everybody in Park Slope is rich.