Non Sequitur of the Day: French Vocab Edition

"Tutoyer."

So nice that, while Putin and Sarkozy are having un dialogue about Russia invading Georgia and Putin wanting to hang their president "by the balls" because W did it to Saddam, Nicky felt comfortable familiar enough with Vlady to tu him.

Ugh.

W: Still Just a Privileged Frat Boy, Cribbing Off Someone Else's Paper

After weeks of false starts driven by discredited conservative ideology and straight-up GOP political whoring, the U.S. now realizes that this Euro-socialism thing might actually work here, and adopts the U.K.'s approach of direct equity investment in its private banks.

"Wudgu git on #1 there, Gordie?" >>

Today, we are all Swedes.

Nobel Gets Real

Whatever you think of Paul Krugman and his positions, anything that makes Americans pay more attention to the real world intersection of their lives and economics -- like giving Krugman the Nobel Prize in Economics -- is only a good thing.

And, no, it's not because Mr. Nobel's dynamite just blew up the global economy.

Read the article.