"Bank of America... sending letters to thousands of homeowners... offering to forgive a portion of the principal balance on their mortgages by an average of $150,000 each."

The idea is to "turn mortgages headed for possible foreclosure into long-term performing loans."

You have to be "at least 60 days behind on payments as of the end of January," so too bad for you if you missed the deadline on... missing deadlines. It's now too late to be too late. A new meaning for the phrase it got late early.

Late rising, and I apologize.

I'm very sorry not to have put up a new post yet and to have left you with the last one from yesterday all these hours. It wasn't as rude as a man wearing shorts on a plane, but it was rude of me to leave you with the image of him as you went to bed last night and then to still have him sitting here, his genitalia lightly veiled by a floppy hemline, as you rise in the morning.

Lesbians versus lesbians.

BBC reports:

Campaigners on the Greek island of Lesbos are to go to court in an attempt to stop a gay rights organisation from using the term "lesbian".

The islanders say that if they are successful they may then start to fight the word lesbian internationally....

The man spearheading the case, publisher Dimitris Lambrou, claims that international dominance of the word in its sexual context violates the human rights of the islanders, and disgraces them around the world.

He says it causes daily problems to the social life of Lesbos's inhabitants.

To add to your problems, Dimitris, we're all laughing at you now, you whiny Lesbian.