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Oh, I wouldn't say I've been missing it, and maybe Comcast has recently deployed a better filter, but in the last several days, I've started receiving waaay less spam.

Anyone else experiencing this? If this continues, I may have to update my epitaph, which was going to be "He Deleted Spam."

Were spammers hurt in the financial meltdown? If this is true, do we really want a financial recovery? And now that the market's back up, will strangers once again make it their business to advise me about zucchini enhancement? Read below the fold...

who -- irony alert -- denigrates "Obama, his campaign, all Democrats everywhere, and pretty much the entire liberal progressive blogisphere and all aspects of the liberal progressive movement" as follows: Read below the fold...

[UPDATE Via Bloomberg, Obama also supports a foreclosure moratorium. Regardless, and here I will comment, the difference in scale and speed between when banks are suffering and when ordinary people are suffering is quite striking. Can we get some kind of consistent and coherent plan for the rest of us together, please, instead of improvised patches and kludges? Read below the fold...

Wrapped in the Flag

Prime Minister Proposes $500 Billion European Bank Bailout (Wall Street Journal)
U.K. to Rescue RBS, HBOS, as Germany Plans Up to €400 Billion to Aid its Institutions; U.S. Is Considering Similar Moves Read below the fold...

WaPo's chinless wonder Fred Hiatt writes a post mortem for the McCain campaign.

Meanwhile, progressives discuss whether to wait until after the 2010 mid-terms to hold Obama's feet to the fire, or until after Obama runs for his second term, in 2012.

Hey, just kidding! Needless to say. Read below the fold...

Ouch! More from Stirling Newberry, who actually knows all this finance stuff.

Oh, the Cassandras, the Cassandras... Read below the fold...

Please read Paul Jorian's blogpost regarding the implosion of the credit markets, the reasons, the influence of "The Chicago School" of economists whose assumptions continue to help us not understand how economies work, and "What it All Means".

Don't feel bad to reread each sentence, mouth-moving to form the words, just as I must do. Just read it. (plus it's fucking footnoted. My god, who footnotes a blog!!!????)

Here are some teasers:

The opener: Read below the fold...

See Steve Audio. Read below the fold...

FEMAfication.

Ouch! Read below the fold...

This correction on msnbc.com rubbed me the wrong way a little:
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A week after McCain asked for my vote*, Obama plans to do the same. Perhaps with tea that's less weak?

Bloomberg: Read below the fold...

Glenn Greenwald describes his latest book, now out in paperback (makes a great gift!):
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Nice guys do finish first sometimes.

"Paul Krugman, a professor at Princeton University and an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science on Monday.

Mr. Krugman received the award for his work on international trade and economic geography. ..."

On his blog, The Conscience of a Liberal , he says: Read below the fold...

holy shit. i almost got ill when i saw this.

i believe this belongs in the "Read it and Weep" department.

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/10/ar...

(i presume everyone here is aware of the fact that since October 1, we have an active military unit stationed here in the US for domestic operations, under the control of NorthCom.) Read below the fold...

Invictus has the details, but the "Camp Delta" torture policy from Guantanamo Bay has been posted online now. It's breathtakingly unadorned, and if a USAF commanding officer is willing to put a signature on this ... silk-wrapped excrement ... then impeachment is far too mild a fate for Bush, Cheney and their cohort of criminals, for not only have they destroyed our armed forces with their calumny, they have dishonored our officers and enlisted corps with their viciousness. Read below the fold...