Boom-de-yadda

Who believes in monkey-powered mobility? Well, there's Helena Bonham Carter, for one:


And Rupert Everett:


And as previously mentioned, Matthew Broderick (and offspring):

I just had yet another person offer to buy the hat off my head. Maybe I should start saying yes. Lessee now, it cost me $35 five years ago, so... "Sure. You can have the hat for $50. If you want the reflective hatband, that'll be another $15. You can't have the Aztec cat pins; those were a gift from my mother."

Really, the Hat Guys (17th & Broadway, downtown Oakland) ought to give me a commission, considering how many people I direct their way...

I found myself laughing aloud in disbelief when I came across this latest piece of news about the ongoing economic implosion. From Forbes:

In fact, some of the most basic details, including the $700 billion figure Treasury would use to buy up bad debt, are fuzzy.

"It's not based on any particular data point," a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. "We just wanted to choose a really large number."

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