I really don’t have anything else to say here, I just want to give some more love to the ludicrous Yahoo! Front Page. The subhead about Nick Nolte there might be even more sublime than the main article. I think that web headline writing is becoming so compacted and oblique that practically anything, if read a certain way, starts to sound like an Onion article.

Meanwhile, the Dow lost another 7.33 percent. Hmm, that’s about 40 percent from a year ago. Thanks GOP. What’s weird is that smart people like Paul Krugman (and me, cause I read him) have been warning about the coming Unraveling for years, and yet suddenly the Mainstream is all “Holy shit! Who knew this massive shell game that funneled money to the ultra-rich could ever blow up in our faces?” This makes me feel slightly better about not taking advantage of my former employer’s 401k for the 5 years I worked for them.

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Edited to add: Don’t feel like writing a new post, so I’ll just say it here: this SNL Weekend Update Thursday is kind of a dud. The humor was only barely there in the debate sketch and missing nearly entirely from the Weekend Update bits. I mean, shit, that was Leno bad. Haven’t these writers ever seen an episode of the Daily Show? Are they afraid network viewers can’t handle topical humor more than an inch deep? I think it’s pretty clear that Tina Fey was the one bringing the teeth to the Palin sketches. I listened to a little of Bill Simmons’ recent podcast when he had Seth Meyers on and that guy sounds like he has no guts at all. Just a total hack. He basically said that SNL toned down their Bush impressions from 9/11 on because they were afraid of how the audience would react. Pussy. And seriously, why the fuck haven’t they found a good Obama guy by now? They’re going to need one for a while. They still don’t even know how to properly make fun of O. …lame jokes about space ships and aliens…