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Today the Bush administration offered its brave response to the current financial crisis, as delivered by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. The administration has faced overwhelming pressure to give the government more oversight and regulation within the financial markets, since every major player (investment banks, hedge funds) keeps dying and then asks the government for money. And who better to ramp up regulation on investment banks than Henry Paulson, the former C.E.O. of Goldman Sachs! So what’s in his funny new oversight package, and how will it not do anything save the economy again? MORE »

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We tend to think of Cabinet officials as “goody two-shoes” types. People who never got into trouble when they were kids — like that piano-playing, figure-skating prodigy, Condoleezza Rice. (And no, we don’t believe the latest rumors about her.) MORE »

* Short week, short review. First thing you need to know is: on Friday, Wal-Mart tried to answer the questions, “Why you acting shady? Why you ain’t callin’ me baby?”, by having Beyonce and Taylor Hicks perform at their shareholder meeting. CostCo admits they were served. MORE »

The new guy’s kinda… weird, don’t you think? MORE »

Seriously, is it just us? The one one the right is a like a John Turturro/John Waters-lookin’ guy. MORE »

Holy shit, really?!? MORE »

Hiya, folks. It’s me, special guest opinion-page writer and superstar pitcher Livan Hernandez of your world-famous Washington Nationals. I’m writing here with a renewed vigor here, people. Big news to report. MORE »