you betcha!

If you missed Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live," you can see the two skits here . They're pretty good.

who said disco is dead?

At 103 beats per minute, the Bee Gees' song "Stayin' Alive" has almost the perfect rhythm to help jump-start a stopped heart. In a study from the University of Illinois medical school, doctors and students maintained close to the ideal number of chest compressions doing CPR while listening to the tune from the 1977 movie "Saturday Night Fever." The American Heart Association recommends 100 chest compressions per minute.

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pictures of history

Vanity Fair magazine has put together a list of the top 25 news photos of all time. You can see them all here .

battleground carolina

The latest polls indicate North Carolina could go either way in the presidential race. The last time N.C. went Democratic? 1976, Jimmy Carter.

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maybe this will slow down the louis express

Looks like Cowboys QB Tony Romo has a broken finger and will miss a month or so.

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in case catastrophic success is looking for a new name with the change in administration

A Scottish historian on his country's financial turmoil:

"The government was very wrong to have so few controls on the financial excesses of the banks and to allow this lunatic adventurism that existed in the financial sector in the past."

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i can't do what 10 people tell me to do, so i guess i'll remain the same

Otis Redding was the first artist of the rock era to have a No. 1 hit after he died -- 1968's "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay." He was to be followed by Janis Joplin, Jim Croce, John Lennon and some rappers the commish has barely ever heard of.

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yeah, i can't figure out why he's winless either

Your Original Champions lost a close game with Catastrophic Success. The outcome might have been different had YOC not lined up 6 players against Cat Success' 8. If I might have a word with YOC: STOP STARTING STEVE CHRISTIE. HE HAS RETIRED FROM FOOTBALL.

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e-mail making the rounds

If you had bought $1,000 of AIG stock one year ago, you would have $42 left. With Lehman Brothers, you would have $6.60 left. With Fannie or Freddie, you would have less than $5 left.

BUT, if you had bought $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all of the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling refund, you would have had $214.

Based on that, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.

(Courtesy of a Wachovia employee)

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they may be titans of industry, but they flunked public perception 101

AIG executives spent $440,000 on a retreat at a posh resort a week after the federal government’s $85 billion bailout of the insurer. Manicures were among the expenses. The reasons for this: Top execs wanted their hands to look their best, a) while holding them out for taxpayer money, and b) while holding them up before testifying before Congress.

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