We're waking up to the news that WaMu has gone belly up. The Army is sending a brigade combat team home to the United States to guard the homeland/suppress a rebellion/taser people. The recently nationalized AIG's former CEO has deployed a $126 million golden parachute. Paulson is engaging in histrionics and getting down on one knee to salvage a bailout discussion that went horribly wrong. And our Chinese overlords are ordering their banks to stop lending to American banks.
On the homefront in da ATL, we're still out of gas despite the EPA waiver to let us use non-low-sulfur boutique blends so that we can get our hands on some. I can't do anything this weekend with friends inside of 285 as I'm scared shitless that I'll be stranded in soccer mom land. (Traffic is usually light on Fridays in Atlanta, but today was especially light. The normal 7:15 Route 100 on CCT arrived at 7:45 a.m., instead of the usual 8:09 a.m. this morning.) People are still panic buying and causing long lines.
An oil executive has called for the unthinkable: canceling the UGA v. Alabama game while the Dear Leader Jr. goes off to Europe during the shitstorm and in a time of state employees getting furloughed and worsening budget cuts. (Word to state leaders: GET OFF YOUR ASSES, CALL A SPECIAL SESSION AND ESTABLISH RAIL LINES not just to downtown but also across the burbs.)
And this crap could last another week.
Los, Panik!
I think that I've just burst so many blood vessels in my eyes that I will be blind by this afternoon.
On the bright side, I live indoors, I have enough food from the dented can sales stockpiled to survive an attack by an ICBM, I have a kitteh who curls up at my feet, and I can at least get to-and-fro from work. If necessary, I can get to Atlanta via a 3-hour bus ride with about 5 gazillion transfers. I have half-a-tank of gas to get to the grocery store and the dollar store and the Goodwill (all within a 5 mile radius). And I have a better job.
Monty Python can help:
H/T's to all the bloggers who've kept me informed.
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