So, while we were bravely rescuing CP commenters from being cast adrift on an ice floe, apparently Geezer said the economy is sound, and then he didn’t, which was before or after he pulled a Gore and claimed squatter’s rights on the Crackberry, but definitely before Failed HP CEO Carly Fiorina said he doesn’t have the cojones to run a Fortune 500 company, while we discovered that Talibunny lurves them tanning beds, which makes the odds of Geezer croaking first from skin cancer less certain.

Oh, and Nader’s talking to parrots.

We give up. Just throw the election into a blender and we’ll check back later.

Our understanding of finance doesn’t extend beyond credit cards, and we’ll happily let Blogenfreude supercede this with something informative, but it looks like the Fed is going to loan AIG $85 b-b-b-billion in exchange for 80 percent of the company.

You thought it would only be forty bees? Hell, that was yesterday. Pay attention!

Apparently this is necessary to prevent AIG from collapsing and creating a black hole in the world financial markets far more spectacular than anything the Hadron Collider can muster.

Fed to Loan A.I.G. $85 Billion in Rescue [NYT]

Nader. Parrot. Awesome.

When your mind gets erased by the dudes from Men in Black, this is what you see…
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Sure, we could blame it on a malfunctioning database, but who are we kidding: It’s you, taking your vengeance on our groundbreaking series of posts, “Sarah Palin: Get Over Yourselves, She Can’t Be That Bad.” You’re dumbstruck by our sudden advocacy of plucky personality politics, and rather than comment, you’re acting like a sulky bunch of goth kids.

Well, fine. Until you grow up enough to treat us with some level of respect and deference, we’ll just leave the comments broken, and you can spend the day with the whiners at Kos and TPM. Then you’ll come back on your knees, begging us to fix the comments, and maybe we will if your anguish pleases us.

And maybe we will anyway. Soon as we figure out how.