Friday roundup: Obama Cabinet parlor game edition
Welcome to the second edition of Friday roundup, where we humbly suggest some things from around the Web that we think are worth reading:
Mike Memoli, filling in over on Marc Ambinder's blog, speculates about who might fill the positions vacated by people moving into Obama's new Cabinet.
A smart analysis of why Obama picked Hillary Clinton for secretary of State.
Meanwhile, Spencer Ackerman wonders whom Clinton will take with her to her new gig.
An incredible photo gallery of past presidential Cabinets.
Lots and lots of people want to work for an Obama administration.
The next cycle of Senate contests, summed up by the Rothenberg Political Report.
Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is selling off its stuff to pay debt.
The Associated Press profiles Timothy Geithner, who, like Obama, hates to miss a pickup basketball game.
A list of Obama's top friends in Hollywood.
-- Kate Linthicum
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Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
Johanna Neuman is a veteran Washington correspondent for both The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, having covered presidents and politics as far back as Ronald Reagan. A former president of the White House Correspondents Assn., she authored a book on media and foreign policy, “Lights, Camera, Wars.” Most recently she was co-author of the 
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