"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue."

I don't know why, but that line from the 1980 movie Airplane! somehow seems to fit.

Oil dropping below $40/bbl.

Price of everything dropping - more rapidly than anytime since 1933 ("... it was a very good year").

Chrysler & Ford to idle U.S. plants. (GM still hasn't a clue.)

W attacked by shoe-flinging journalist in Iraq.

Madoff admits running a $50Bn Ponzi scheme, in which, apparently, half the capitalist world invested.

W is musing publicly about his soul.

I'm left speechless, capable only of quoting a tasteless comedy gem:

"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue!

Have a nice day.

p.s. ... and hell froze over:

Against The Odds, Snow Dumps On Las Vegas
7,000 Without Power In Vegas Area
Thursday, December 18, 2008 LAS VEGAS
What's happening in Las Vegas is staying in Las Vegas: snow.