Okay so it’s nine days old, but you must read this very delightful article about the effects of the financial crisis on Greenwich, Connecticut, a town where rich people live. There had been three types of people in Greenwich, organized into a clear heirarchy: rich hedge fund managers, rich investment bankers, and lastly, filthy serfs. Then! Wall Street crashed! And the new arrangement is thus: rich hedge fund managers, slightly less rich ex-investment bankers, and even filthier serfs. This is a disaster of world-historical magnitude and Hank Paulson needs to buy Greeenwich’s “middle class” new Ferraris to avoid SYSTEMIC GLOBAL FINANCIAL DEFAULT FAILURE. MORE »

Hello, friends! We have completed our four-mile 2008 iteration of “Sherman’s March To The Sea” and, appropriately, burned down all of once-happy Denver in the process. Again, we have walked back from Invesco Field and destroyed Denver; it’s probably on Drudge or Yahoo News or something. As we were going to Hope Field at -20,000 o’clock this afternoon, who did we find on our Shuttle but lovable Connecticut failure Ned Lamont, the 2006 Democratic candidate for Senate who lost to Joe Lieberman, an independent shit-rat. What a guy that Lamont is! He was entering the stadium just like everyone else: in agony. MORE »

According to the Stamford Advocate, an FBI investigation has concluded that the notorious crash of Joe2006.com, Joe Lieberman’s glorious Web site, the day before his August 2006 primary loss to actual Democrat Ned Lamont was caused by Joe Lieberman’s campaign. When will Joe Lieberman apologize to Joe Lieberman for these dirty tricks? MORE »

* Rudy Giuliani, like many Americans, wishes his kids didn’t exist. [Election Central]
* C-SPAN to the USA: “Fuck you.” [Washington Wire]
* “Christians are sort of like a half-assed version of FEMA .” [DCeiver]
* Danish “artists” sneak English acrostic joke past Iranian newspaper editors. [LGF]
* National Review remains prophetic, as ever. [Whiskey Bar]
* Richard Daley promises Barack Obama a vote from every single person who died in Chicago since 1930. [Political Insider]
* Ned Lamont not the elite hax0r you thought he was. [Stamford Advocate]

God knows where they’re pulling these numbers from — we suspect somebody’s ass — but CNN is calling Connecticut for Lamont. MORE »

• Pennsylvania Congressmen Curt Weldon has homes of friends and family raided by the FBI for shady lobbying contacts between himself, his daughter, and a massively corrupt Russian oil company. [WP, NYT]

• Former FDA chief charged with conflict of interest over stocks he held while in office, surprisingly does not blame Democrats. [WP, NYT]
• When Dick Cheney appears in second-tier backwater cities his visit is heralded “like a rock star coming to town.” He is adored by 6 year-olds, others who read at that level. [NYT]
• Barack Obama is more like an actual rock star; at least he uses drugs. [NYT]
• Mark Foley’s hill staffers are still holding their ankles. [WP]
• In Connecticut senate race, the Republican candidate polling in the single digits may be key to Lamont victory. [WP]

The ugly mafia sedan with the oddball vanity plate (2?) apparently belongs to Vinegar Joe Lieberman. MORE »

At left, Emily Lamont, 19-year-old daughter of Connecticut Senate candidate Ned Lamont, is snuck up on by a nefarious beer funnel-wielding fellow Harvard student (as found by IvyGate, who are either for or against Ivys, we’re not sure). Ms. Lamont surely refused to partake in the illicit goings-on that followed. MORE »

Despite the careful comments in public — who wants to find an axe-wielding Joe Lieberman banging on the door in the middle of the night? — it seems Harry Reid and Hillary Clinton are loaning some big guns to Ned Lamont’s brave attempt to rid U.S. politics of Vinegar Joe.

Reports the Kos:

Stephanie Cutter, a key member of Reid’s vaunted war room, has been in Connecticut for the last week and plans on helping out through November. She worked as Deputy Communications Director in the Clinton White House, communications director at the DNC in 2003, and communications director for John Kerry (after the late-2003 staff purge which revived his primary campaign).

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John Kerry got his letter published (costly registration required) in today’s Wall Street Journal!

Our parents used to be totally proud of us when the local paper would print our letters. (”There are too many loose dogs around the playground.”)

Anyway, Kerry used a bunch of his inspirational lines from the ‘04 debates — “The 9/11 Commission’s recommendations to secure our most vulnerable infrastructure remain virtually ignored,” for example — in the letter, which seems to actually be about Ned Lamont. Kerry’s letter, after the jump ….

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• Ned Lamont is a gnat on a dog’s ass, electronic spying is cat’s meow. [Blackfive]

• Let’s argue about what is the most evil: Evilness, the Soviet Union at the peak of the Cold War, or Nazis. [TPM Cafe]
• Cheery how-to-fix-Iraq Power Point slide. [Crooked Timber]
• The word “naughty” is never ok. [The Volokh Conspiracy]
• “I think a lot of people put up reviews on Amazon about liberal and conservative books without even reading them. Now, the same thing is happening with milk!” [IMAO]
• Reuters and Lauren Weisberger inspire alternate, better covers for books you read excerpts of in The Atlantic. [HuffPo]