1. Obama administration decisively passes the buck on Syria
2. A Brief People’s History of Labor Day
3. Bob McDonnell doesn’t know what he knows
4. America’s Secretary of Explaining Stuff is back
5. This week in “we told you so!,” we talk immigration reform
6. Brain Trust puts Congress on notice because now even Chris Christie has passed an equal pay law
7. 41 learns the hard way that, just because the obituary is written, doesn’t mean the person is dead