I was going to say, if AIG gets downgraded, the reverberations will make today look like child's play. AIG going under will fuck shit up.

Uh. Oh.

@Jehovahs Witness Protection Program: When the Bills win, the economy tanks. Look it up, it's science.

@TattooedMess(iah): No one knows how many and which MER employees BofA will take. I'm sure BofA wants to take as many of the thundering herd as possible (that's the whole point of the acquisition), but surely they can't take them all.

Fascinating look inside Lehman today:

Presented without comment:

@TheLou-Do: I went over there myself just to make sure. If anyone jumped, they'd have landed on a satellite dish. Or a tourist.

What a day, what a day...

There's only one third-base coach in history whose name I do not need to google. It is Dale Sveum.

Similarly, [nytimes.com] now has boobies: [www.nytimes.com]

The goalie would have been better off just lying prostrate across the ice.

@HIV 2 Elway Resurrected: I'm still scrummaging for my eyeballs on the floor.

I can't save this for DUAN. Sorry.

(I've read the first 22 pages of "Infinite Jest" many, many times, but never past that point.)

@Fawn Liebowitz: Ha! No, I do everyone a favor and comment as Dan Daoust. There's, like, five of us who extend the courtesy to the other readers of using a pseudonym. I don't know why that's so hard for everyone else.

10 Investment Banks set up $70B loan pool; Dan Daoust gets in line, hat in hand.

@MrRedDevil: Your checking/savings accounts at WAMU are insured by the FDIC up to $100K.

@MrRedDevil: That'll be the straw that breaks the camel's back...

Attention All Lehman IT Personnel: Report for Work Tomorrow As Per Usual.

Letter from a Parting Lehman Executive [dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com]