Happy Chinese

Whomever came up with the phrase 'May you live in interesting times' must be delighted right about now. Things are getting very interesting.

We have a president who actually used the Recession word, saying that we could be in terrible trouble, might even enter a recession. Nice of him to notice. I imagine he liked being at the UN and listening to all those other countries sliming his country in general and his economic policies in particular. We've got someone from his party trying to take that office who seems to be running out of steam (not supporters, though), who even gets slimed for not showing up on a talk show, and whose Vice Presidential pick seems to be losing her political appeal - not overwhelmingly, particularly with the faithful, but certainly with the media, who look to be paying her back for her (or the McCain campaign) refusing to let her take questions in an open forum. And we have another candidate who sounds and looks like he has the job already -- though thats still up for grabs. And of course we have the gihugic bailout -- I heard it called Bush's latest Shock and Awe/Trust Me -- where the Secretary of the Treasury, an old Wall Street guy, reluctantly agreed to cap the salaries of Wall Street CEOs at companies getting bailed out, and the Federal Reserve chairman was careful to point out to Congress that he, personally, came from academe, not Wall Street.

I'm ready for some non-interesting, nay, downright dull times now.