Sunday Night Live (and Maggie Q!)

• Movie-fest weekend for the muckster.  Went and saw Knocked Up, and Live Free or Die Hard at the theater.  Watched The Departed and History of Violence via DVD.  All entertaining movies.  And today's picture is of Maggie Q, from Live Free or Die Hard. 
• The monthly strength and holiday strength are behind us.  We're also heading into pre-options week.  Combine all of that stew with a hawkish inflation jawbonin' from Fed member Janet Yellen on friday?  Well, would anyone be surprised if traders took a pause this week? 
• Murdoch's Wall Street Journal purchase not a done deal yet.  The two sides have come to a basic agreement over how to safeguard the Journal's editorial independence in the event of a sale to the media mogul's News Corp but other issues like price are thought to need more discussion.
• Live Earth Johannesburg blames climate change for poor turnout. Officials at Live Earth Johannesburg have blamed the effects of climate change for poor audience attendance at Saturday's (07Jul07) South African event. Organiser John Langford believes extremely cold weather in the region - it snowed last week for the first time in a quarter of a century - kept people away from the concert.  Any questions from the reading audience?  Al Gore said "The debate is over."  That was a clue that the debate certainly wasn't over.  Let the science continue and lets not stifle anyone who is bold enough to ask questions.
• Kim's podcast is up featuring an interview with Robert Kiyosaki.
• If you're looking for some "cup runneth over" chat on the economy, you know you can count on Larry Kudlow.   You know he's pretty excited about the employment and wage numbers, but there's a tidbit there I liked:  (Note: If you graduated from college your jobless rate is 2.0 percent. If you failed to graduate from high school your rate is a much higher 6.7 percent. Message: Stay in school.)  Agree, Larry.  And I added the bold.  Very important me thinks.
• And a little trivia on Maggie Q (naked, nude, topless, dancing, karate, smoking, bikini, bra, panties, roller derby).  Maggie Q was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to a Polish and Irish-American father and Vietnamese mother who met while her father was stationed in Vietnam. Maggie is the youngest of 5 children.  Her full name?  Maggie Denise Quigley.  You've also recently seen her in Mission Impossible III.  I wonder how that meeting in Vietnam between mom and dad went, eh?