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General Motors CEO Richard Wagoner; Chrysler CEO Robert Nardelli; and Ford CEO Alan Mulally beg for a bailout (photo courtesy Associated Press)

The grim financial news this week should be enough to convince even the optimistic people that we are headed into a significant period of economic retraction.

Typically folks compose messages like these when they are on their deathbeds, or after some significant life event caused them to re-evaluate their priorities.

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I rented a disquieting film about the system of torture that evolved in the years since the terrorist attacks of 9-11 entitled Taxi to the Dark Side.

Not quite eye-appealing, but better than hunger

I make frequent trips up to the Detroit area in my trusty 1995 Hyundai Accent, a car I purchased last year for the inexpensive price of a mere $700.0

On your left is Pugsley, a 6-month-old, 17-pound Puggle who was rescued from a Northwest Ohio animal shelter.

As a teenager I did not quite understand the bitter sarcasm and not-so-subtle phallic imagery in the Buckingham-penned song "Tusk," though I thought the song was especially quirky and catchy.

No longer a place for solitude and study