Tangled Bank #118

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Thought you should know that Howard Schweber, a columnist at the Huffington Post just badmouthed your favorite marine animal:

What the hell is Paulson thinking? Never mind the economics of all this, what about the politics? I have to assume that members of Congress are going to be absolutely enraged. Remember the hard sell on the original bailout package? We had to immediately purchase toxic assets or a Depression would ensue, there would be riots in the streets, cephalopods would fall from the sky.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/howard-schweber/what-the-hell-is-paulson_…

And my offering over at The Talking Points memo is doing quite well. It's the most recommended post of the last day in the Muckracker section:

An End to the Illegal Smile?
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/timtimes/2008/11/an-end-to-…

My religious poll looks to be topping out about 500 votes. Withes and Heathens rule.

Enjoy.

Off topic:

Does anyone know what's happened to Matt Dowling's fine blog Ontogeny? It's been deleted with no mention he's restarted elsewhere.