“It may be that the stock market will reach its bottom due to simple Apathy.”

That was, roughly, a quote I heard on a “at top of the hour” news blip on an am radio last night.  I made sure to be at that spot for the next hour, to get the quote exactly.  It didn’t come on.  Instead we got:

“Just how much wealth has been wiped out?  Here’s how to picture it.  It is as though the last eleven years never happened.”

Which is, strictly speaking, something we all wish were true.

Then there was Arnold Schwarzenager speaking of the Automakers Bail-out (or whatever euphemism might be used), and referring to his practice of positioning himself right where the public currently sits by straddling to a position of mixed skeptism(*), speaking of hoping that any deal made isn’t a prelude to the country going the direction of the Europe he fled forty years ago.  Four years ago, this sort of tripped him up, as an inability to spell his name right tripped me up.

(*) Incidentally, I tend to think this makes him — from my vantage point, a fairly decent governor.  I suppose he’s too useful a scion in the Republican Party machinery, and in the end no more and no less effective than the governor he drove away.

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