Former Treasury Secretary O’Neill’s eyebrow raising prediction:

If the United States doesn’t get its finances in order, the coming years will make the current recession “look like a child’s birthday party,” said former Treasury secretary and Alcoa chairman Paul O’Neill.
“We’re headed for the wall at lightning speed. And every day that we don’t deal with that [...]

Unlike Columbus Day, I actually like Thanksgiving. Celebrating the symbolic meeting between Pilgrims and Indians, when despite their differences, they came together at the same table and shared their cultures is a great lesson for everyone. Plus, we all have a lot to be thankful for, and what better way to celebrate than to eat [...]

Saudi Arabia to Join NATO Naval Mission; Pirates Boost Defenses
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) — Saudi Arabia said it will join a fleet of NATO warships on an anti-piracy mission, as hijackers bolstered defenses around an oil-laden Saudi tanker captured off the East African coast.
The navies of India, Russia, France, Britain and Germany have all battled [...]

From Drudge:
GOOGLE will launch a new tool that will help federal officials “track sickness”.

SICK SURVEILLANCE: GOOGLE REPORTS FLU SEARCHES, LOCATIONS TO FEDS

“Flu Trends” uses search terms that people put into the web giant to figure out where influenza is heating up, and will notify the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in real [...]

from The Onion:

The stock market may be down the day after the election, but I have never seen more smiling people on the subway in my life. Usually my morning ride is filled with looks of murderous rage or hostile indifference. Most of the miserables heading to work at 9 am look like they will either snap [...]

I will be covering the election on and off all day over at Blast Magazine Proper.
Check it out.

NYC Real-Estate Developer Offers ‘Obama Contingency’
Holy election tie-in: Erik Ekstein, who’s developing +aRT, an 88-unit Chelsea condo that just began sales last week, says he’s including an “Obama Contingency Clause” in all contracts that go into effect between now and Election Day. If Obama wins, the contract goes through, but if John McCain prevails, buyers [...]

How, after 20 months of non-stop coverage of the presidential campaigns, can anyone possibly be undecided, you ask? Well the New Yorker’s David Sedaris tries to dissect their mindset:
I look at these people and can’t quite believe that they exist. Are they professional actors? I wonder. Or are they simply laymen who want a lot [...]

While it is generally deplorable that John McCain’s campaign is sending out hundreds of thousands of sleazy robocalls essentially insinuating that Barack Obama is a terrorist, McCain also may be doing the country a service. We finally have the definitive test of whether our country has the intelligence to survive as a superpower for the [...]

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