The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system near collapse, we have a continuing housing crisis that we're making progress on dealing with.
| Ronnie Barker, Comedian (1929) |
| Mario Diaz-Balart, Politician (1961) |
| Robert M. Gates, Politician (1943) |
| Mark Hamill, Actor (1951) |
| Felicity Kendal, Actress (1946) |
| Don Adams, Comedian (2005) |
| Billy Carter, Celebrity (1988) |
| Marvin Davis, Businessman (2004) |
| John M. Ford, Writer (2006) |
| Johann Heinrich Lambert, Mathematician (1777) |
| Ring Lardner, Comedian (1933) |


