I thought gun sales were up because conservatives were afraid President Obama would take away their hunting rifles. But Mark Penn says it's because of the bad economy. Show us the polling data, Mark!

Nooo, that's what you wanted to think. And you're partially correct. But, I can think of another reason why people are buying guns. City and county budgets are being slashed. Tax revenues are way off the 2007 levels. Many places are laying off police officers and cutting back on patrols. Many people are losing jobs all over this country. One may conclude that less jobs and less law enforcement could equal more crime. Some people may wish to protect themselves and their belongings during what may become dangerous times.

I thought you would have imagined that, considering you are the voice of how this world works. Or maybe the mean streets of Berkeley don't work that way.

Governors make a few pennies over 100k. We need to pay these guys more if we don't want them grubbing for cash.

This Blagojevich guy is scum, but if he was making 300k he might not have felt like Obama's open seat was bleeping gold.

I haven't seen the stuff since I was 16. But I've felt the stubblemoster.

Had some good laugh out loud moments reading the paper over breakfasts this weekend.

I liked the WSJ's Weekend Journal coverage of the Madoff story. As someone who doesn't have much in the bank, I can't help but laugh at really greedy people being fleeced by another really greedy person whom they regarded as a hero. The irony is in High Definition. It's so clear. Look at all those pixels and tears. Gotta sell the third house! ... cry me a river.

How many of these people who lost money with Madoff also spent money lobbying congress to deregulate during the 90s and 00's?

I wonder what those guys are thinking today.

It would cost some money. Four fixed cameras on each of the NFL's 31 fields would be ideal, but the league could probably get away with 32, two mobile cameras at each game, in position on whichever side of the field the teams are playing on.

I hear Matt Walsh is out of work. Huu-ahh!

That dude made 16.8 million dollars in two years at a Parella Weinberg. He didn't even have experience. It's kind of like Edwards raking in cash at Carlyle for what I have to imagine as a non-value addition to the firm.

The longer I live the more I realize everything boils down to the almighty dollar. Look at Wall Street. It's slowly coming into focus that all of those assholes are greedy self serving bastards that lack professional ethics. Or either their ethics are the negative of the traditional picture we have of 'ethics'.

Rahm is hiding something. Anyone smell that stench?

I came away with the feeling that she views her single best credential for the Senate seat as her celebrity, and, secondarily, her wealth.

There has to be some Gaius Marius figure out there. I'm getting mighty tired of the nepotism in our politics. I guess everyone is against it unless your Dad or Mom was some big deal. I was reading the NY Post over breakfast a week or two ago (I'm a new yorker). Someone wrote a letter to the editor which just said, "She's a Kennedy, she can get the job done." They printed that shit. They really did.

How intellectually listless can people be?!?! It's almost like people are too numb to think. Like their synapses are measured in lightyears. My God, this woman has done nothing, and she expects a Senate seat. I would rather have Bill Clinton or Elliot Spitzer take the seat. Or George Pataki or anyone with some gravitas and experience.

If I'm drafting a baseball team, I look for talent. Just because some kid's last name is Mantle doesn't mean he can hit a curveball.