Kerry's Consolation Prize? etc.

--Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic suggests that if John Kerry does not get to be Secretary of State -- and it keeps looking more and more like it's HRC -- he still might get Interior.

--Sorry, Timmy: It looks like Obama will name the country's first black Attorney General, but it's not Deval Patrick.

--Reports have Peter Orszag to head the Office of Management & Budget, which makes two Phillips Exeter grads (along with White House Counsel Greg Craig), against one Massachusetts prep product (Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett went to Northfield Mount Herman in Gill). Orszag would also be the third appointment who studied at the London School of Economics, along withSenior Advisor Pete Rouse and deputy chief of staff Mona Sutphen.