Top 10 Cheap Indulgences After the Economic Collapse

So the bottom's about to rust out of the economic bucket? Trying to think positive, here's 10 cheap things to indulge in and be thankful for after the collapse.

1. Listen to those old CDs you have laying around
2. Croissants!
3. Ride your bike
4. Read those old New Yorkers you have lying around
5. Walk around your 'hood 
6. Converse All-Stars
7. Netflix
8. Deli coffee in those classic New York paper cups 
9. Toasted cheese sandwiches with a glass of milk
10. Flickr!

Feel free to add your own in comments.

Two Short Orders

Friend and Lego-sculptor extraordinaire, Sean Kenney has created this striking and poignant new sculpture, entitled "Two Short Orders," which "is an observation on the financial crisis currently engulfing the world."

He was inspired by the short order cook at his local deli, who recently added a sign to his tip jar, saying "Euro & Peso accepted too."

The House Is on Fire

If your neighbor’s house is burning, you’re not gonna spend a whole lot of time saying "Well, that guy was always irresponsible. He always left the stove on. He always was smoking in bed." All those things may be true, but his house could end up affecting your house.

We’ve got to make sure that we put the fire out and then go start making sure that these folks stop leaving the stove on.

- Barack Obama speaking to a crowd of 12,000 at the University of Nevada, Reno

Socialism for the Rich

For years now, they’ve told us that we can’t afford — that the government providing healthcare to all people is just unimaginable; it can’t be done. We don’t have the money to rebuild our infrastructure. We don’t have the money to wipe out poverty. We can’t do it. But all of a sudden, yeah, we do have $700 billion for a bailout of Wall Street.

—Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT)

(Via Panopticist )

RIP Invisible Hand

Adam's Smith's "Invisible Hand" died today and was buried after a short ceremony at the rear end of Wall Street's famous bull statue. The Invisible Hand was just 232 years old. It leaves behind scores of still faithful adherants, hundreds of bankrupt companies, and millions of former employees with diminished retirement accounts.

Losin' Dough

As heard on Zero 7's Another Late Night entry:

Wall Street losin' dough on every share
They're blaming it on longer hair
Big men smokin' in their easy chairs
On a fat cigar without a care

But that's what makes the world go `round
The up and down, the carousel
Changing people, they'll go around
Go underground, young man
People make the world go `round

-The Stylistics, "People Make the World Go Round"
-Written by Thom Bell and Linda Creed