This is pretty funny actually (Hat tip Michael Turk).

With the weekend and Holiday season upon us, I wanted to end the week with a distraction of the day video sent to my by my friend Judith. I think it’s pretty uplifting. Maybe, I’m just getting sentimental in my old age.

This video of George Bush’s top 10 moments according to David Letterman is hilarious. Bush is nearly out of office. We’ll miss moments like these.

December is a big month for Hollywood as some of the biggest and most critically acclaimed movies come out in December. One such movie is “The Reader” starring Kate Winslet. I am a big fan, so I thought I’d provide you with a little distraction from the usual fare of dismal economic news with a short clip from the film.

Enjoy.

The holiday season is the second most important for the movie studios and many of their academy-award nominees are released in the time after Thanksgiving (the 4th Thursday of November) to take advantage of the holiday cheer.
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A friend sent me a mock-up of an application for the free money the U.S. government is handing out in its bailout program.

Very funny. Sign up for the EZ-Cash. (Hat-tip Scott)

Back in September, during the depressing days after Lehman collapsed, I posted a few mindless videos as distractions of the day to get your mind off of Finance.

I’m a day late because the markets rallied pretty nicely today. But, in honor of all the chatter about quantitative easing and America going they way of Japan, here is the distraction of the day: The Vapours singing “Turning Japanese,” another classicly absurd ’80s song and video.

Since everyone and his sister can become a bank, why not a central banker cum professor and his wife? Willem Buiter understands the absurdity of granting any financial institution in America bank holding status. He understands this is one big handout to financial services. Therefore, he has decided to become a bank too.

Quite funny.

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You remember the furor in 2004 over the hackability of the Diebold voting machines? Well, that same worry is back in 2008 and apparently Homer Simpson has fallen prey. Watch the video. Hilarious. (hat tip Marshall Auerback).

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