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* It seems a common truth that the housing bubble has popped. That seems to be all folks are talking about. Radio shows and news articles are talking about how long homes are on the market, rising inventories, sellers reducing prices, etc.
* Batman Begins in IMAX was cool.
* Regarding energy prices, there seems to be some worry about how the coming winter will affect us all as we fire up the heaters. My advice? Turn the thermostat down and wear a sweatshirt around the house. I keep a blanket on the couch for getting cozy watching TV. Try it, and if that doesn't work, tick it up a little.
* Stock market gurus still bullish. I think we're going higher, but that August-September might be a little tricky. I'm fully invested, waiting for a pullback to switch a percentage into more risky holdings.
* This guy says that rising gas prices are going to slow the economy. I think he's sort of right, but that these rising prices have already slowed it down. We're running in the mid-3% range of GDP and unemployment is at 5%. If energy was cheaper, folks would be spending more money at the malls and the GDP would be higher.
* Paul Krugman write columns for the the nation's newspaper, and many other syndicate his work. He supposedly write economics columns, but I've always found them to be more politcal and partisan-preachy, if you know what I mean. A few days ago, he wrote a column saying that Gore won the 2000 election and seemed to imply from my reading that Ohio was stolen in 2004. No doubt, you've read some of the left-wing sites claim this everyday, every month, for years now. <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4743">Here's a guy exposing Krugman's column</a>.
* An anti-Atkins stock portfolio. Interesting!
* When was the last time you had a chocolate chip cookie? (Uh, today about every 5 minutes. I gotta get out of here and go for a jog.)