If "a wall of chattering fear, erected faster than the Russians built the Berlin Wall" is going up, shouldn't I be buying, Jim?

No, it's Texas without the BS, as Jim Lehrer (a Texan who wrote "Baja Oklahoma") said.

Woody Guthrie and...   Take that, Edna Ferber!   OK, she wrote "Cimarron" and made a lot of money off it, but she also wrote a friend:  "Oklahoma I hate and loathe, stern and stem, people and habits, town and country, up and down, forever and ever."   She got in another dig in the script for "Dinner at Eight": ...more

Comments on this site are convincing me to strongly consider Oreck when my 24-year-old made in USA Eureka gives out.  Yes, it takes bags. Yes, I had to change the drive belt in the carpet cleaning head 4 years ago, and the hose a year ago. Yes, it's heavy to lug up and downstairs. Other than that, I wouldn't trade unti...more

Hmmm....Did MSNBC fire Anthony Mirhaydari and replace him with another chart-happy gloomster? (Note the Big Wed Awwow at the top of the story.) Or is this just our old Anthony operating under an assumed name?

Technical analysis, enough said. Study after study has debunked it. "The reality distortion field continues." This is bafflegab backed by jazzy charts.

Like Smeado, Sid_Shock and CR-ROC, I have to wonder why MSN.com posted this article without a warning about who the author was. I can only guess that it was because far fewer people would have bothered to click to open it if they had known who wrote it beforehand. I know I would not have taken the time.

Agree (after all, who's buying whom?), but you left out the "c" in "scum."

David Nutt, eh?   Nomen omen, said the Romans.