Call it bank weekend -- the long version.

On Friday, the House passed a financial reform bill. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called it the "most sweeping" legislation since the Great Depression.

On Saturday, the nation's two major dailies split the difference over its value. The New York Times said...

I watched the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party, which ended Sunday, from my apartment like an American following a nominating convention on C-SPAN. It was foreign but also eerily familiar.

Foreign because the black haired men on camera sat U.N. fashion in long rows, took notes...

It's 7.30 am. There's a 3 mile traffic jam outside my apartment. That means an hour and a half to get downtown. Your eyes are tearing and you already have the itchy smog throat. Wanna call in sick?

This might be New York, LA or Atlanta. But we're in...