When it rains, it pours

So I read all weekend about how the market's were going to shit a brick after details of Geitners plan were leaked.   I can honestly say that I had no idea what the market was going to do, so this is not a 'I told you so' moment but instead a 'whoa what the hell was that' moment. 

It seems like his message is working as the market is holding steady at about +275 since 9:30AM this morning.

I do have one thing to say which isn't a novel concept by any stretch but it might be time to tune out the 24 hour news-cycle, between Keith Olberman, Sean Hannity, that chick with the shitty haircut after Olberman, Lou Dobbs. I keep hoping for a Hardball meltdown when Chris Matthews goes Falling Down and takes out the entire crew over at CNBC. The amount of airtime that these guys have to cover is incredible and it can't be surprising that they are nonsensical most of the time.

The last president who got this much air-time was Reagan and that was when he was an actor. I for one wasn't crazy about Obama going on Leno, not because I don't think the forum is correct or that he isn't taking this crisis seriously enough. I am not one of these people who thinks that Obama must work on the economic crisis 24 hours per day and should not even fill out an NCAA bracket but what bothered me is that it just doesn't feel Presidential. In the same way I wasn't a big fan of Bush going on Deal or No Deal or whatever, it just felt a bit weird to me. I guess I would have preferred him to go on Meet the Press or Face the Nation and answer all questions.


by the way here is another example of a self-serving letter to the Metropolitan Diary:

Dear Diary:



This happened on the day I brought my kitten, now an elderly cat, home to my apartment in Chelsea from the A.S.P.C.A. shelter on East 92nd Street.



They gave me a cardboard travel crate to carry her, and I took her on the 6 train downtown. Almost as soon as the train started moving, she began to cry and wail. I was self-conscious then, but when a huge and rather intimidating man — dressed like a biker, with chains and a neck tattoo — sat down across from me and began to stare, I couldn’t wait for the ride to end.


Then he spoke — “My kitty does the same thing” — and gave a sympathetic nod and grin.

Lara Bergen

Thanks Lara for giving us the details how you adopted the cat from the shelter, it wasn't specifically relevant to the story other than to give yourself some glory for your humane kindness.  I for one was hoping the story ended with the cat running onto the platform and fighthing a huge Manhattan subway rat.
I hate people, I really do.