As the realtors say, location! Location! Location!

You've probably heard about the poll in 2007 that showed American voters would be less put off by a Muslim candidate than by a candidate who didn't believe in God at all. But did you hear that worldwide, there are a whole lot more nonbelievers than most people think, know, or imagine?

Verbatim excerpts from minutes of the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee held on December 11, 2007:

Wellsiree Bob, the Iowans (why does that sound like an alien race on a planet orbiting Tau Ceti?) cast their votes, and we now have the beginnings of a real mess.

Some of the news is quite surprising. Some ain't the least bit surprising in the least.....

Yeppers. Seems the editorial board at the Des Moines Register want to sweep into effect a Rethug win come November.

I pray the Iowa voters are much smarter, and play long ball.

I don't think any comment or elaboration from me would add anything at all to this. I ran a Google search in the news for "U.S. economy" tonight at about 10 p.m. Ignoring one duplicate subject matter story and one story about how the U.S. dollar was faring in the wake of the Bhutto incident in Pakistan, here's the 10 results, in order:

This time of year is about celebrating, right? Couldn't think of a better thing to throw a party over: Florida congressman Robert Wexler is proposing we impeach old Chainsaw McGraw! Wow!....

Happy Winter Solstice, y'all. And now, to make sure your holiday is so rich with DOOM-grade terror, let's again remember that 2008 may look like far worse than 1929 ever did.

2007 was, for me, for many, a year that needs to go away and at warp speed. For others, it will be a nightmare remembered: A 17-year girl has died, and according to some, at the hands of a health-care insurer playing Ebenezer Scrooge to the last, fatal chapter of this tale.

Make it three and counting when it comes to states officially worried about the accuracy and integrity of the electronic equipment used to record and tally our votes. In the past week or so Ohio and Colorado have joined California in concluding that the machines that have decided the last several elections really can't be trusted any further than you could throw them.

In 2002, blogging evangelist Dave Winer made a long bet with New York Times executive Martin Nisenholtz: "In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of 2007, weblogs will rank higher than the New York Times' Web site." Today, Associated Press editors and news directors chose the top 10 news stories of the year, which makes it possible to determine who won the bet.

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