WHAT IS AMERICA MORE CURIOUS ABOUT: CLAY AIKEN OR THE $700 BILLION BAILOUT?

I ran a Google trends search for five terms: bailout, cheerleaders, pasta, Clay Aiken, and Star Wars.

I limited the results to searches conducted this month in the United States.

As you can see from the graph above, interest in "bailout" rose quite a bit in the last 48 hours.

However, the potential collapse of our capital markets is apparently not nearly as interesting as Clay Aiken or Star Wars.

--Junichi

WHICH TATTOO SHOULD I GET?

Trusted Friends:

This holiday season, I wanted to give a gift to my wife (a.k.a. "my special lady") by getting a tattoo on my body that she would find sexy.

I intend for this tat to be my first and only body graffiti so I want to make sure that it's flawless, timeless, and a fitting expression of my individuality.

I also want to honor my ancestors by choosing a tattoo that the various ronin in my family might have chosen.

I've narrowed it down to five potential images that others before me have already tested out ...

They're all gorgeous, right?

The green James Brown mugshot zombie dragon probably is the sexiest, but the one with the cat portrait seems to have this zen quality that captures my belief in both Buddhism and the beauty of feline posteriors.

Complicating my choice is the fact that my grandparents would have chosen Weird Al, whereas my parents are extreme Claymates.

Having said all this, I'm most tempted by the illustration of a random woman on my back since I already have nipples on my derrière.

Perhaps I should just get all five inked today.

--Junichi