Peter Speros, managing director of Sullivan, Bruyette, Speros & Blayney Inc., a wealth-management firm in McLean, VA:

These numbers are just so much worse than I would have thought. It's a real eye-opener.

What horrible thing had this man just encountered? the Federal Reserve Board's 2004 Survey of Consumer Finances.

Uh-oh, this is not good....

Seems some high-school kid decided his world geography teacher went overboard....

On June 15, 2004, CNN bannered a headline saying "Bush: Afghanistan is a victory over terrorism," with a subhead "Hamid Karzai thanks U.S. for aiding his country."

Not the first time he's declared victory at the earliest possible opportunity, and not the first time he's been dead wrong in a deadly way.

Just in case he doesn't bother to follow an event after he declares it over, please, Mr. President, "read on, McShmuck."

Recent piece in USA Today claims "runways were too slick to land planes safely...."

Hey, Missorans! Ready to change your state motto on your license plates?....

This falls into the "You gotta be pulling my leg" stuff. Seems a nice man decided to pay down his credit card balance. Guess who paid attention?

An AP report today reveals that a U.S. Geological Survey study found that Pesticides were identified in almost all U.S. rivers and streams tested between 1992 and 2001.

Sounds bad but, yup, you guessed it, although "Most of the nation's rivers and streams - and the fish in them - are contaminated with pesticides linked to cancer, birth defects and neurological disorders," the contamination is said to be, in the first sentence of the story, "not at levels that can harm humans."

Seems the FCC wants to change the cable rules again, and this time, well, it may work out pretty well for the customers...

Is the government really this corrupt? Yes, it is. Despite the fact that privatizing debt collection for our nation's taxes will cost much more, pose a grave threat to privacy, and be far less efficient than governmental collection, the IRS is set to sign contracts with private companies to do their dirty work.

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