Vote in this great poll

NPRs Planet Money (my favorite podcast) is having a poll to "name this crisis".  Cast your vote!  There are some good ones.

Name this Crisis!

A graphic to show how bad banks are doing

This comes from a blog that was linked to from NPRs Planet Money.  This shows the market cap of a number of large banks now vs. last year.  If you don’t know, market cap means the value of the bank in the stock market (i.e. If shares are $1 and there are a million shares out in the market, then the market cap = $1 million)

Crazy weather here in WA

We are fine and dry, but there are all sorts of areas that are under water or near flooding.  The street near our house on the way to the kid's school has a creek that is JUST right up to the street.  Hopefully it can hold on until it recedes.  There is a cool little site my neighbor put up with his OWN weather station.  So you KNOW it is the weather that I am experiencing (short of a few hundred yards).