Very Local News

• 2012 just doesn't sound four years away to me. people keep saying it is the next election and that car manufacturers have until 2012 to do x y and z. The difference between 2008 and 2012 just doesn't have the 'vast' factor that that so many commenters want it to have.
  
• Baltimore will soon not have a major paper. it is a pretty big city. Huston only has one major English news paper.
• The SEC had credible complaints about Madeoff for years. He had a 50,000,000,000 fraud going for decades. This is most likely the biggest fraud case in U. S. if not world history. He couldn't get four people to cosign his bail. He got sent away with an ankle sensor. Not sure I would want to be on the street if I were him.
• All those people who bought oil futures at $140 a barrel a couple months ago are a bit miffed right now as oil is selling on the open market for like $45 a barrel.
• "We don't know what to do, so we will lower the interest rate to a range of 0.25% to 0.0%. Good luck. and remember, we all still have jobs."  the Fed.
• Tons of construction on Richmond on the way home. People drove like nuts.
• Saw Rebecca at Target. She and we were both picking up kid's Christmas party stuff.
• Eye Spy. A film maker plans to plant a tiny camera in his prosthetic eye and film people saying things to his face that they might not say in front of a camera. Does it do sound?