Banking Law

The night before I left to cover the Iraq war I got drunk with another friend, who works in TV news. We were talking about how--as an approach to national security--invading Iraq was...different. I'd moved my family from Washington to New Hampshire. My friend was considering getting his family out of New York. "Don't you hope," my friend said, "that all this has been thought through by someone who is smarter than we are?" It is, however, a universal tenet of democracy that no one is.

--P.J. O'Rourke, Peace Kills.

I have the same hope and the same fear when I consider the financial system rescue plan currently being hammered out by all those big-brained individuals in our nation's capital this week.

If it's true that there are no atheists in foxholes, then pray for guidance to whatever god floats your boat. Guidance for them, not for you.