Friday - December 18, 2008 - Coast to coast frigid weather, Mish: ARMs Reset Problem Vanishes Into Thin Air,Headbanging Harms Your Brain,

This explains Ozzy Osbourne: Head banging (shaking head violently) to Heavy Metal Music is bad for your brain

Police neglected 3 earlier tips from meter reader who found what is thought to be Caylee Anthony's skull last week

They're BAAACK - How to cope when your adult children move back home

The Presidential Pickup Game: With the naming of 'the best basketball-playing cabinet in American history,' hoops madness is hitting Washington.

David Copperfield breaks man's arm during his magic act

Japan forecasts "NO GROWTH" in 2009

Gentlemen, Stop Your Engines: A NASCAR fan makes the case to euthanize stock-car racing

Police arrested Mississippi men's basketball coach Andy Kennedy early Thursday after a cab driver said the coach punched him while calling him "bin Laden" and other racial insults.

Alternative Energy:Tidal energy system on full power as a tidal turbine in Northern Ireland, The SeaGen system, now generates 1.2MW, the highest level of power produced by a tidal stream system anywhere in the world.

Is obesity the new taboo?

Iceland recovering well, says IMF

Novel idea from Credit Suisse: give worthless assets as "bonuses" to 2,000 white collar execs

Easter bunnies at Christmas: 69 rabbits discovered in a one bedroom apartment

Germany's Islamic Terrorists: Echoes of Baader-Meinhoff Gang

Layoffs: 8,000 sugar workers in Jamaica lose their jobs

Commercial pilot to passengers: "I'm not qualified to land the plane"

Sixty-six countries at the United Nations have called for homosexuality to be decriminalised

Mish: ARMs Reset Problem Vanishes Into Thin Air

Alan Taylor's Big Picture Blog "Year 2008 in Pictures" Part 1

Fleck:Stocks may claw upward for now, but the next quarter could be a different story.

Brazil to build South America's first nuclear Navy

Least competent criminal of the week: Postal worker stole gold from pawn shop mailing then sold the gold back to the same pawn shop

Andy Kessler: Madoff didn't set out to be a crook, instead he became one in increments because he sucked as an investor

Some of Madoff's clients who got out of the Ponzi Scheme early might have to give back part or all of their winnings

Global demand for Chinese goods has slumped, unrest is on the rise in the industrial heartland, and China is scrambling

Even New York City commercial Real Estate has got the blues . . . bad

Almost no segment of New York City’s real estate industry was spared in the Madoff scandal, which may be history’s largest Ponzi scheme: commercial brokers large and small, little-known developers and prominent families like the Wilpons and Rechlers all lost money to Bernard L. Madoff, industry executives say.

NYT: "On Wall Street, Bonuses, Not Profits, Were Real"

Obama promises more regulation of the financial and insurance sectors

Salon: How the hell did Rick Warren get inauguration tickets?

Japan's government has forecast that the country's economy will have zero growth in the year ending March 2010.

NASCAR has settled a $225 million lawsuit filed by a former official who said she was subjected to racial discrimination and sexual harassment

New web game hit . . . play it here . . . Sock and Awe game allows you to throw shoes at a ducking President Bush

Tumor removed from the brain of a Colorado Springs infant contained a tiny foot and other partially formed body parts.

NY man charged with insider trading on wife's info

Coast to coast bitter cold, snowstorms, icestorms closing roads, airports and schools

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