• OH LOOK, A BOOK REVIEW, BY YOUR EDITOR: “According to Kurt Andersen’s slim new book Reset, the economic collapse is a magical second chance for America — an opportunity for a nation of greedy vulgarians and fat slobs to find new purpose in our post-binge society.” [Las Vegas Weekly]

LEHMAN BROS. WAS HERE: “One sad stretch of dusty road has seven vacant houses in a row, nobody around for a mile on either side. Where did they go? Who even owns the mortgages, if the mortgages could even be pieced together from the ‘collaterized debt instruments’ that brought down everything from mighty Wall Street investment houses to chickenshit little construction firms in the grandly named Inland Empire?” [LA CityBeat]