I really hope that the Safari developers get the bug fixed with their handling of "401 Authorization Required" responses. Safari only seems to send the actual Authorization header half the time, so, for example, when I'm posting to this blog, which I do from a server which requires Authorization, and MT does its set of redirects, sometimes it just gets stuck half way through...which sucks.

I always like reading Paul Krugman's columns at the NY Times, but I especially liked thie following bit from final paragraph of this week's column "A Fiscal Train Wreck":

Even though the business community is starting to get scared ? the ultra-establishment Committee for Economic Development now warns that "a fiscal crisis threatens our future standard of living" ? investors still can't believe that the leaders of the United States are acting like the rulers of a banana republic.

The scary bit is that the "Banana Republic" bit holds true for far more than just their fiscal policy.