No time to delve into the bottomless well of hilarity this story engenders, but can’t let it be said we overlooked it.

NYT: Wolfowitz Criticized for Getting Girlfriend Job

Google for more details—particularly staid, sober sites run by banks. They are, to put it kindly, livid over this. Betcha some folks at the US State Department are not amused either, particularly Dick Cheney’s non-lesbian daughter (who this Fuckbuddy works for) and C. Rice (the FB makes way more salary than Condi does.)

Tee hee.  Read more 

Just call me Cassandra … I see a bad moon a rising …

A senior Asian Development Bank official said on Thursday that the dollar was likely to decline further, and he called for East Asian countries to make sure that their currencies rose in unison and did not gyrate.  Read more