Thoughts for 1/28/2010

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said that the AIG rescue prevented a national economic depression akin to the "Great Depression." Upon making that statement to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform he turned to his aide and asked, "Think they bought it?"

President Obama has admitted to some missteps in his first year in office. As a matter of fact, in the official transcript of his State of the Union speech he struck the language of that entire section and inserted a picture of Rahm Emmanuel stabbing a steak knife through Martha Coakley's dining room table.

Mel Gibson is making a comeback with the new movie Edge of Darkness. In the film he plays a detective searching for his daughter's killer. I hear he really got bogged down in research for the film, and in order to understand the stress that police officers are subject to on a regular basis he decided to go on an anti-Semitic, drunken bender behind the wheel of his own car and stop starring in movies for almost a decade because everyone thought he was a creep.

Expectedly, Brett Favre is on the fence about coming back for another season of professional football. Unexpectedly, he was joined by a tearful Tim Tebow at the post-game press conference.

A new study shows that, at the same time a great deal of money was being inserted into abstinence-only education, the rate of teen pregnancies and abortions actually rose. In a strange move, abstinence-only advocates have hired Snooki to unveil their new slogan: "Pickles is my thing."