The Morning After
Oil -- you'll recall this commodity from that time before yesterday when we all owned cars and houses, yes? -- is just $96 a barrel. [ Reuters ]
Instead of getting started on revising the bailout plan, Congressional leaders keep blaming each other, but mostly Nancy Pelosi, for their terrible failures. [ Washington Post ]
In response to America's fuck-up, the Germans have turned to quoting Nietzsche, which, oh god, do you remember the last time someone gave a German a copy of Beyond Good and Evil ? [ Der Spiegel ]
Even the Big Business lobbyists couldn't persuade their friends the House Republicans to vote for the bailout. [ The Hill ]
Thanks mostly to the rejection of the bailout, Asian markets are suffering too. [ AP ]
Some poison milk found its way into some Cadbury bars in Asia, and now chocolate is ruined forever. [ Times Online ]