• The lat­est to come for­ward: A Perkins wait­ress. Lis­ten, there’s so many of these reported affairs now that we’re going to guess that some of them aren’t true. Although this one has a bet­ter chance than some of the oth­ers. Mindy Law­ton, a wait­ress at an Orlando Perkins where Woods was known to get an egg-white omelet with broc­coli, claims that she had a year-long rela­tion­ship with the super-celeb. We’ll say it again, man. You could’ve saved your­self so much trou­ble had you come clean imme­di­ately. Now it’s just a sad, unbear­ably depress­ing joke. source

• He was within grasp in 2001, but rein­force­ments weren’t sent. First off, let’s state the obvi­ous: We’d still have ter­ror­ism trou­bles if Bin Laden were cap­tured – though they might be less focused. How­ever, a Sen­ate report says that the U.S. was close to catch­ing him in Afghanistan, only to drop the ball by lean­ing on air strikes instead of putting peo­ple on the ground. Don­ald Rums­feld is specif­i­cally blamed for his lack of action. source

• ear­lier One of our reg­u­lar com­menters sug­gested that the Tiger Woods inci­dent screamed “scorned woman beat­ing inci­dent.”
• now The very report that TMZ came out with late last night sug­gests this exact sce­nario. Is Elin Norde­gren angry? source

• That appar­ently took 45 min­utes to get up. They could have called any­one on Twit­ter 30 min­utes ago to get those details from what offi­cials were say­ing based on what they had already read thanks to Twit­ter and Google.
• TechCrunch colum­nist MG Siegler • Com­ment­ing on the break­ing nature of the Tiger Woods crash. @BreakingNews had it 45 min­utes before any main­stream news source. When CNN had it, they had zero infor­ma­tion. This is because they needed to source it, whereas @BreakingNews didn’t. Another inter­est­ing note from the story – BNO News, which cur­rently runs @BreakingNews, will let MSNBC run the feed start­ing next month. Expect it to start suck­ing at that point. source

• It was a nightmare for me. I wish they caught me six years ago, eight years ago.
• Bernard Madoff • Speaking during a June prison interview with investigators about the Securities and Exchange Commission’s constant probing of his ponzi scheme. You start to feel sympathetic until you realize that this jerk could’ve easily said something six or eight years ago and prevented some of the $21 billion in investor losses. So Bernie gets no sympathy. • source

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decline in The Network’s 3Q profits; ouch source

• the good The Congressional Budget Office, which has no ties to the White House, says that the economy will recover in late 2009, which they say is “largely the result of fiscal stimulus.”
• the bad Despite that positive development, this negative development should get conservatives in a tizzy. The deficit will reach a record $1.6 trillion. The old belt doesn’t fit anymore. source

• I have no doubt he’s going to be indicted … Just the amount of work tells us that.
• Defense attorney Roy Black • Analyzing the likelihood that Dr. Conrad Murray will be indicted in the Michael Jackson case. Investigators have spent months gathering evidence against him – search warrants, interviews, so on and so forth. And Fox News didn’t even have to announce this analysis, which aired on “Good Morning America,” a week early! • source