^{Brought to you by that housing business - We're stacking the fees deck, aces up our sleeves, now come on, play yer cards, no cheating, ante up.}

Good Morning! Rise and Shine! Get that Cup O' Joe...
break out the O.J....hang out with the pooch...time to check out the Funnies.

^{Cartoonist: R.J. Matson}

There Should Be an App For That

^{Cartoonist: Tom Toles}

Recession Rap - "I Can Make Your Stocks Drop!"

^{Cartoonist: R.J. Matson}

Rahm Emanuel Exits White House

^{Cartoonist: Tom Toles}

No Se Puede (No, You Can't)

^{Cartoonist: Pat Bagley}

The Onion reports Something About Tax Cuts Or Earnings Or Money Or Something In Recent Economic News:

WASHINGTON—Some sort of tax cut or earnings or money or something was reported in economic news this week in further evidence that a lot of financial- related things have been going on lately.

According to numerous articles and economics segments from major media outlets, experts on banks and such have become increasingly concerned over a new extension or rates or a proposal or compromise that could signal fewer investments, and dollars, and so on.

Blogger Doug Molitor asks Brother Can you Spare A Diamond?

Some point to the widening gap between rich and poor in this country, like it's a bad thing. If grinding poverty beside fabulous wealth is such a turnoff, why does everyone vacation in Rio?

Me, I think paying the entry-level employee one-fourteenth as much as the company CEO, as the average Fortune 500 firm did in the 1970s, contributed to that decade's infamous lack of respect for societal betters.

Nowadays, the difference is a healthy 1,000-to-1, which is the kind of long-shot odds that makes going to work as exciting as a day at the races. Just knowing he's got that one-in-a-thousand chance of not living out his golden years in a refrigerator box, dining on Frisky's Savory Shreds, puts a little extra spring in your average working slob's step, if not an actual pole up his ass.

Yet Obama and the Democrats are proposing to let the law take its course in 2011, allowing the tax rates on the top 2% of incomes to rise from 36% back up to a confiscatory 39%. I don't know about you, but if I were an insurance CEO, worn to a frazzle, staying up nights trying to figure out new excuses to deny children coverage, I would consider netting $1 million a month the minimum acceptable compensation. You're telling me I now only get $970,000? I'd rather stay in bed.