It is, undoubtedly, big news that a consortium of major central banks, including the Federal Reserve, have joined together to inject an emergency $100 billion into the international money markets in order to prevent the credit crisis from wrecking the global economy. It's a welcome move, and evidence of how dangerous the current moment really is. But my commentary on it will be entirely frivolous. Go to The Guardian and check out the picture they use to illustrate the Bank of England's involvement. It's a shot of the bank building itself and, frankly, I'm not it's good to be so reliant on an institution that clearly leads a double life as a cozy home for the world's vampiric hordes. And, because this is tangentially related, here's the opening scene to Blade. Not safe for workplaces that aren't awesome.
