A Very Vexatious Friday
GREEN EFFIN SHOOTS Y'ALL, happy days are here again! The unemployment rate fell to a mere 9.4% in the marvelous month of July. [ New York Times ]
Huzzah, the Senate has appropriated more cash for Cash for Clunkers. (For Clunkers.) [ Washington Post ]
Oh good Lord. Harry Reid used an actual patch of AstroTurf as a visual aid to demonstrate what dicks the Republicans were being about health care reform and described their intransigence with the most stinging insult in the English language ( "vexatious stuff"). [ Washington Post ]
President Obama's counterterrorism chief says, "January sounds like an OK closing date for Guantanamo, but so do a lot of other months." [ Wall Street Journal ]
AIG, the insurance giant and one of the most despised companies in America, has posted its first profit in seven quarters. [ Bloomberg ]
John Hughes, the cinematic Tolstoy of our times (honestly!), died too young. [ RogertEbert.com ]