So I was just going to write about the latest job cuts at Continental today. Combined with the retirement of older jets at Continental and other airlines, there are 10% fewer airline seats available. With more of the same, the airlines may be able to right themselves, but rough times are still ahead.

I was going to leave the blogging to this story until I read about the latest tech CEO to tumble from options backdating. But this is even juicier than the standard financial scandal. Henry Nicholas, CEO of Broadcom, is being charged with 25 counts including drug possession. Turns out that the underground rumpus room for drugs and hookers that he was having built onto to his house is old news. The only real problem that anyone had with it was that he was refusing to pay the builders. Well, his wife did have a problem with it when she caught him and a hooker there.

Nicholas might have gotten away with it if he had not gone all Type A over it. The key to a secret sex room is not to announce it to the world.

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