"Here I Come to Save the Day!"

Mighty Mouse has nothing on these bozos. And the Fed has turned into the piggy bank of first resort. Meanwhile, unemployment is up, and foreclosures are up. But at least oil is falling back close to $100.

In completely unrelated news, this site continues to be pounded by people Google-ing about the end of the world. All the activity has driven us up to the third spot in the search results. Today, I was reading up a little on the LHC just to see if it was still on schedule and learned something very interesting. Everyone is worried about what will happen when the LHC is fired up and starts smashing protons, but there is just one thing: Not a single proton will be smashed on September 10; they will just be doing a few laps around the track. So even if the doomsayers are correct and the high-energy collisions do produce earth-eating black holes, it won't be happening until sometime late in October or early November.

So I guess the message is that if you are going to be a doomsayer, at least get the date right.