The Door Creaks Open. Bouffant Enters, Looks About, Speaks:

"Yo, where all my dawgs at?"

Ah, I suppose the rest of the staff is off to grandma's for the holidays, or something equally bourgeois. (I just bet Ms. McArdle will do the same next wk.) 

Therefore, I'll try the "shorter" thing.

For example: 

I, & every other hack typist in the United Snakes, have been going on about how greed, consumption & materialism are last wk.'s news, & now we'll all be cuddling by the fire w/ our families as we burn the last of the stock certificates.

Or: How much is a detroit [sic] autoworker really worth?

Oh, you can just imagine. The free-market concept of a product or service being "worth" just what you can get for it, nothing more, nothing less, of course goes by the wayside when it's labor being valued. Then she's on about GM's accounting & how to calculate what a drain on the profits the workers are.

Key Phrases:

If I understand it correctly, and GM uses standard accounting principles,

So I'm not sure that argument is quite right.

Bloody Embarrassing:

Regrets, she's had a few...Now extending to voting for B. O.

Doesn't Get It:

And I'm certainly not going to explain it.

And from someone who bothered to comment:

I officially resign from reading this blog (but rarely commenting). Chalk it up to Megan's regular pronouncements about "If you're not a finance genius, then you have no business commenting about this crisis", only to then admit she doesn't fully understand the same problems, or has been proven stunningly incorrect on so many occasions in the past month. I'll also chalk it up to the progressive dumbing down of comments here. That's what Townhall.com is for people.

Ooooh. We can't top that. So we won't try.