It’s hard to figure out what’s worth your time with all the first reads, politico blasts and tweets that race by before your third coffee of the morning. So let us provide some curation to your otherwise blur of a morning before your second conference call.

Ana Marie Cox thinks less work for Rove at Fox is more of a “promotion” than a network reorganization.

TV Newser has George Stephanopoulos at ABC’s This Week through 2013.

The D.C. Metro area film critics love Kathryn Bigelow‘s Zero Dark Thirty (and The Master!)

Buzzfeed speaks to a Cory Booker backer betting big–to hell with alliteration–for a 2016 run.

Politico reports:South Carolina demands the good Dr. Stephen T. Colbert.

NPR lays out the differences in President Obama‘s second inauguration.

That should get you through at least your first lunch-that-gets-turned-into-a-coffee-break.