QUICK HITS:
* Why not nationalize? John P. Hussman with some good economic straight talk.
* "In 2009 and 2010, all the two-newspaper markets will become one-newspaper markets, and you will start to see one-newspaper markets become no-newspaper markets."
* Nicholas Kristof on modern pig farming and disease epidemics.
* "While it is illegal to sell kidneys, it is not illegal to trade them."
* Space station scare over space junk.
* Today's BBC headline: "'Sausage-pony' prompts 999 calls"
* The secret message in Lincoln's pocketwatch.