anyone know anywhere online I can get the last 15 min of Criminal Minds premiere?

Tried the CBS website?

How far behind is Comedy Central?

They record at 5pm ET, right?

yeah ita, I found nothing, I was looking off the CM page.

My understanding of the financial crisis thingy is that, in essence, if the financial sector tanks it takes the rest of the economy with it, because every sector, governments on down, needs finance to grow. So no bailout probably equals a depression.

However! A government bailout means that the people who played fast and loose with finance (and I believe in this round it's more the greedy and the gamblers than the genuinely corrupt) can stuff up in monumental fashion and they don't suffer the consequences, not to the extent they should. And that just means that the next time the financiers catch a whiff of testosterone, they'll be beating their chests and declaring "I AM SPARTACUS!!" Or something like that. Because if it pays off, they're rich, they're the 300-pound silverback gorilla with their own harem and surprisingly tiny testes; while if it fails, hey, not their problem. The government'll sort it out. Which means that there's going to be another crisis, and it'll be worse.

The solution to both these pitfalls is to combine any bailout with improved regulation and oversight (I think transparency is a good place to start, let the markets know what risks the banks are taking), and to make sure that there's plenty of pain for the captains of finance who forgot in spectacular fashion that markets go down as well as up. I'm sure the current administration will get right on that.

The Daily Show is cracking me up....

Last thing that made me smile?

Jon Stewart

I haven't been that wholly impressed with the "superior" taste of organic fruit and veggies, and I'm not supposed to be buying organic on my jobless budget, but they were filed out of place.

Good mishap. I've been pathologically having cereal and porridge so I can put them in and it's nummy.

However, this is unlikely, because in the US the government happens to be debt addict and gambler number one. As individuals, we may have been as virtuous as we wished, but the government will have still run up exorbitant debts on our behalf.

While it may be true that the government is addicted to debt, a big part of the problem is that most people are too.

I think my most recent smile would be the msbelle and mac show, although Isaac putting on his sister's Dorothy-esque sparkly red shoes and running around the playground shouting "here comes the astronaut! OH NO! Ready for BLAST OFF!" was also made of win.

From Kos (quote of former Republican Rep. Mickey Edwards):

Oh, brother. What idiot came up with this stunt?

It ranks somewhere on the stupidity scale between plain silly and numbingly desperate. McCain and Obama are both members of the senate and they're both able to help craft a solution if they wish to do so without putting the presidential campaign on hold; after all, I’m sure congressional leaders would be willing to accept their calls if they have some important insights to impart. And while one of them will eventually become president, neither one is president yet, nor is either one a member of the congressional leadership; I’m confident that somehow the administration and the other 533 members of congress will be able to muddle through without tapping into the superior wisdom and intellect of their nominees. Sorry, john; it really sounds like you're afraid to debate. This sounds like the sort of ploy we used to use in junior high school elections.

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