Quickies: You kids can stay on my lawn all you want

• In a piece that I have quickly dubbed The Greatest Article Of All Time Until I Get Old, an economist argues that younger workers are paid too little — while older workers are paid too much. Viva revolución! [Slate]

• Book retailer Powells.com has teamed up with hip literary/commentary/etc. site The Morning News to judge a bracket of The Best Books of the Year. Somehow, Billy Packer will argue that not enough major conference books were selected for the bracket. [The Morning News]

• A girl angry at her dad’s punishment lit a fire that ended up killing her father, a police officer, when he tried to save her. She’s being charged as an adult with murder, arson, &c. [DN]

• Sigh. The once venerable I. Goldberg chain is down to one last store. I’m pretty sure it all went downhill when they decided to put one in Franklin Mills. [Inky]