Before I get too far: Stay classy, Senator! What was this man thinking?? 
Life is not like the movies: Thankfully, given Shorties titles! But seriously, life is even less like the movies when you are a computer.
Tips for running a small business: particularly in the worst of times.
Leaders must also be servants: Taza, son of Cochise.
The whole truth: “The ‘living beyond our means’ argument, with its thinly-veiled suggestion of moral terpitude, is technically correct…. But this story leaves out one very important fact. Since the year 2000, median family income has been dropping, adjusted for inflation.” Robert Reich is off telling the truth again. And it’s only going to get worse according to the IHT.
More truth: Underemployment is at a 14 year high at 11%.
May I have some more?: Ok, have some inflation data!
I hope you never need this: Advice for New Paupers. Unfortunately it’s all too easy a slide into a really bad place from which it’s hard to climb out.
Schneier shows us that conventional wisdom about terrorists is wrong: Terrorist groups are a lot more like gangs (or all those little independent Jewish groups in Life of Brian) than political movements. In fact, there are 7 ways they are highly ineffective.
An interesting view of the bailout: What if Mr. Paulson really started playing hardball with the banks that want to take government money but not really give anything up/back in return?
Another Missing Link: A newly found fossil explores a transition between fish and the land-dwelling vertebrates that followed 375 million years ago.
Anime explained by alien visitors?: Some documents support the idea that in the early 1800s, Japan was visited by strange-featured little people with pink faces, red eyebrows, and impossibly long white hair, who arrived in round, glass covered “boats.”
Iraq wants the United States to follow some rules: Specifically, they want our soldiers to not commit crimes, they want us out of the cities by next June, and they want us out of the country altogether by 2011. So, assuming no catastrophes, whoever is elected President next month can take credit for bringing troops home. All he has to do is abide by the existing agreement.
Nite, folks. Stay sane.