The Tim Gunn show must be worth watching! How do I know? The picture of Veronica Webb looking shocked (or, perhaps flabbergasted is a better word, flabbergasted flabbergasted flabbergasted) because this week's makeover victime looks so much better after she has been rehabilitated by the fashion-maven-flavor-of-the-month. Webb would never look like that if Gunn had not changed some poor woman's life for the better.

I'm gonna have to hook up my TV now.

You know, that other actor guy who pretended to be president when I was a kid.

If your name is the only name on the lease, you need to stay until it ends. If the roommate's name is on the lease along with yours, you still need to stay until the lease ends.

Yes, I am saying you need to stay until your lease ends. You need to protect yourself. These people have clearly demonstrated that they don't really care about you. Why should they care about protecting your reputation as a renter if you leave before your lease is up?

It may be possible to get the lease changed. But usually doing this requires something along the lines of 75% of a month's rent or more as a penalty payment. This is especially true if the apartment is owned by a large company. If you can get the roommates to pay this penalty, then you can move out immediately. Otherwise you must stay.

The main thing you need to consider right now is your financial situation and your future as a renter. Moving out while your name is still on the lease is placing your future in the hands of people who have no obligation to protect you. That would be very unwise.

The protection is for the lenders and the investors. It's not about the poor schmucks who are losing their homes, it is about the big lending companies who made the loans and the already-wealthy who are losing their high-risk investments.

If you are going to make repeated snarky arguements about a topic, please try to know what the topic is.

PeteyG, we can't succeed by doing what we are doing. That is part of the problem here.

We need to either triple or quadruple the troop levels, or we need to get out of the way.

"We broke it, we bought it," doesn't really get us anywhere if we just keep breaking stuff.

Tilde man, you are probably only baiting. After all, you did choose a handle that is unreadable. But I will give you one more attempt at reason.

You persist in characterizing this debate as being about whether or not people deserve to own homes. That is not, has never been, the issue.

The mortgage industry made a huge number of predatory loans. They loaned people money in such a way as to trick them into agreeing to loans they could not pay off.

Should the consumers have done a better job of researching the situation? Of course. But the lenders knew what they were doing when they made these loans. They knew they were setting people up to default on their mortgages.

Now these lenders want to be bailed out. They want to have their cake and eat it too. It is the rich people who are being bailed out.

You can talk all you want about whatever else you want to pretend the issue is. But that will not change the fact that corporations are being bailed out of situations that they knowingly created for themselves. That is what is happening. That is what the problem is. That is what the cartoon is about.

It doesn't seem to do much. It flaps its end pieces and rocks back and forth a little. If it does much more than that, the marketers did a lousy job of presenting it in the video.

I guess it is something to watch when your TV is broken.

If you have very low expectations for something, finding it not quite so bad can be surprising. For Bush's intellect to surprise Draper may just mean that Draper had very low expectations.

For someone who seems that stupid, his intellect is surprising.

He can't be as stupid as he seems. Based on what I have learned, the Convair F-102 is a very difficult aircraft to fly. Bush could not have learned to fly it if he didn't have some native intelligence.

But he does seem very stupid. So the description "surprising intellect" could easily be a case of damning with faint praise.

Extra Extra!!

Wannabe journalist interviews wannabe performance artist!

Manjoo had begun to redeem himself with his tech blog after embarrassing himself trying to be a political reporter (or whatever he was trying to be). But this pathetic interview of a pathetic child shows that Manjoo really is in the wrong industry.

Ah, Salon, how low you continue to sink.

I had been ignoring this article since it first showed up. Then I noticed it was written by King Kaufman, so I decided it might be worth reading.

It was, I guess.

And right on the money.

Enough said.