Do you, like me, vaguely understand what's going on with the economy, although you don't quite understand how the pieces fit together?  Well, I just finished listening to the most recent episode of This American Life, "Another Frightening Show About The Economy."  And it comes with my highest recommendation.  (If you listened to their sub-prime ( Read more... )

This is what the McCain-Palin "campaign" has sunk to:

Worse, Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream ( Read more... )