British paper makes dubious claim that Michael Jackson has blown a billion.

A couple of points of view on the economic meltdown, with some good news sprinkled in. First, “When Even Good News Worsens a Panic,” WSJ, and “The Fed Is Out of Ammunition: A discredited dollar is a likely outcome of the current crisis,” also WSJ (h/t Terry H). Then, “The End of Wall Street’s Boom,” Portfolio, Dec 2008 (h/t thor) Read and discuss. I’m interested to hear the give and

Clinging, according to BJT: Our loyal commentator (and supreme commander of creative swear name calling) JD has been in the hospital since this past Saturday due to a ruptured gall bladder. Apparently this was brought on by enough gall stones to rebuild Stonehenge. In the course of the surgery the doctor managed to nip his bile duct, giving rise to his comment that “those moonbats who called me hate and

A few of you wrote and asked that I please put up a post toward the end of November reminding you of the recently completed pw fundraiser, and how you might contribute. This is that. As for how you might contribute, you can use either the PayPal or Amazon Honor System buttons over on the left — both of which, I’m told, are completely secure. Again, much obliged — as

Including those folks may not know about.  I have to go teach.  Don’t forget to insult one another, in the spirit of the season.

What’s wrong with this picture? Proggs are distressed to find that Lieberman holds on to his committee chairmanship, but seem to have no problem with Ways and Means Chairman Rangel’s ever-ramifying tax troubles. Helen Jones-Kelley gets a two-month vacation with only one paid for abusing her authority to dig into JTP’s government records–will receive high-fives when she returns–whereas employees of a private company are rightly cashiered when they view The

Posting will be intermittent (and likely scant) through Thanksgiving. My wife is leaving on a business trip again tomorrow, so I’m going to use the next few days to get the house ready for Thursday, and to get the rest of the Xmas shopping out of the way. Guest posters are welcome to fill in. And as always, there’s plenty of good stuff over at the Pub.

From “Tongaroo” again: Dood…if you’re so certain you got me pegged with your mad googling skills, come out here and show me how big a man you are…or are you afraid? You’re nothing but a pussy pseudo-intellectual, who thinks since a bunch of mouthbreathing morons worship your cock-slapping antics, that you actually have something of worth to contribute. Pfffffft. To which I reply, is there anything more sad than having

CNN: Verizon Wireless has fired employees connected to a breach of records from a cell phone used by President-elect Barack Obama this year, a Verizon source said Friday. The source would not say how many people were terminated but said “we now consider this matter closed.” Verizon reported the breach Thursday, and Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said the transition team had been notified Wednesday. Gibbs said the president-elect no longer

Now available in paperback, as well as mass transit-festooned performative.