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Obama and McCain square off, while Wall Street gets bailed out. Links Mentioned: the bailout is underway … examining the Swedish alternative

MoDo read my mind: And who cares what Henry Kissinger thinks? He was wrong 35 years ago, and it’s only gotten worse since then. Kissinger’s a terribule human being. Why were both candidates so eager to embrace the good doctor last Friday?

Yarrr: Somalia’s 1,880-mile coastline is crawling with pirates, a serious problem given that so much of the country is dependent on emergency food aid, which comes mostly by ship. The pirates are highly organized. They work in teams. There is even a pirate spokesman (who could not be reached for comment on Friday).

Gotta love Mitch Albom.  His folksy, leftist populism has always been a big hit with sports fans in Detroit.  Mitch is crafty enough to be overtly non-partisan, but if you read his columns long enough, you get the impression that he’s a closet D. Reading Mitch’s piece yesterday on the firing of Matt Millen, I’m [...]

Ron Suskind’s “telling lessons” illustrate the genesis of the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut and Sarbanes-Oxley, which is to say, the Administration acted quickly to address structural flaws in the financial system: The Federal Reserve chairman and senior economic officials of the Bush administration solemnly filed into the large conference room of the Treasury Department. There [...]

If John McCain doesn’t want to debate, Sen. Obama should just show up anyway. He can hold a town hall meeting in Mississippi instead. If the networks won’t carry it, just stream the whole thing live from his website. Plenty of people are gathering to watch the debate this friday. He might as well give [...]

. . . Word is spreading of classy new lunch dining: Business is building at Jensen’s in Eagan, where the well-known supper club is now offering weekday lunches — with a freshly made popover welcoming each customer.

And here I was hoping America’s problems might be solved by the entire planet getting sucked into a black hole: The world’s newest and largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, will not begin operations again until April, officials at the European Center for Nuclear Research said Tuesday. Ah, well.  At least if the world [...]

Alaska Airlines is shamelessly capitalizing on my Sarah Palin nightmares:

Goldman Sachs chooses capitalism: Warren E. Buffett, the country’s most famous investor and one of the world’s richest men, announced on Tuesday that he would invest $5 billion in Goldman Sachs, the embattled Wall Street titan, in a move that could bolster confidence in the financial markets. It’s strange to think that an investment bank [...]