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From Warren Buffet on Berkshire Hathaway stock: The credit-default-swap market’s main concern appears to be a large Berkshire derivatives trade, in which Buffett sold puts on the S&P 500 and three foreign stock indexes, with a strike price equal to the price of the indexes at the time the trades

#fullpost{display:inline;}The Canadiens can seek comfort in two more undeserving points. Fans can cozy up to the fireplace with a cup of warm cocoa, resting with the delightful vision of Alex Tanguay backhanding his way to glory. But alas, we can't. Because these are hard times.

Photo: Ottawa's own, the incomparable Yousuf Karsh, 1941Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning -- Sir Winston ChurchillThe Highs:My CPU is a neural net processor, a learning computer. The more contact I have with humans, the more I learn: He is coldly efficient.

#fullpost{display:inline;}This is a new feature here on FHF, where we combine a commentary about the previous night’s game along with a review of a movie we have recently seen. Fresh on today’s menu: The Habs’ win over the St-Louis Blues and the new 007 flick, Quantum of Solace.The Game: SoullessHow unbelievably kick-a-frying-pan-into-my-forehead boring.

Coming off yet another embarrassing loss to the Montreal Canadiens, the Senators saw their record drop to four games below .500. Sitting dead last in the Northeast division for the first time since expansion, the Ottawa media pulled out all the stops and gleefully fanned the flames of a growing fan revolt."FIRE THE COACH!!", everyone screamed.

They’re crawling out of the proverbial woodwork:  the desperate doomsaying Chicken Littles. The sky is falling, the sky is falling. I have read countless blog posts in the last year that have preyed upon peoples’ worst fears. As a moderate and an Independent, I’ve seen it bleed out of the left and the right.

Dear readers,My vagina has recently packed up and bounced out. So if you see her on I-90 with a suitcase full of lube, condoms and birth control, can you please call me at 1-800-GET-LAID? Thanks,MsP

#fullpost{display:inline;}Not a long review, just enough to say that the system invented by Emilio Estevez that has long defined hockey in Anaheim left the Canadiens defenseless.The sight of Kunitz, Getzlaf, Perry, Pronger, and a little girl in a pony-tail, locked in a V formation, steaming down the ice had the Canadiens' shivery-legged squad running for the dressing rooms.

A storm surge of Wall Street-in-crisis movies is coming soon to a theater or television near you, and busy trend reporters are preparing us for the worst today with their grim surveys of what to expect in the weeks and months ahead.

I'm not the first person to say it. After yesterday's 31% drop in the price per share, news outlets talking to the right people this morning are already saying it, albeit fecklessly, like thus: "Will GM declare bankruptcy?" All I'm doing is removing the question mark.