Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. I hope everyone had a great T-day and managed to take advantage of some of the good sales yesterday (if you braved the malls, that is).

I’m not quite sure what to make of the Tiger Woods story just yet, but there isn’t any excuse for cheating, let alone a possible assault.

Much more important is the news out of NY and NJ of dire budget issues, and that much of this news was all too apparent before the election, but the politicians held off dealing with ‘em until after the election. They put their reelection efforts ahead of fiscal responsibility.

And then, there’s the terror attack in Russia, which has killed 39+.