I don't like the sound of this.

This is actually rather handy: a look at which Poliblogs (think: poliwogs,) use the fewest offensive expletives. The best part? You don't even have to know what they are!

I added a few of the best (lowest) scoring sites - from both the left and right - to my feed list.

(HT: Instapundit)

On forgiveness:

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
This is hard. It is perhaps not so hard to forgive a single great injury. But to forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter, the deceitful son - how can we do it? Only, I think, by remembering where we stand, by meaning our words when we say in our prayers each night 'Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those that trespass against us.' We are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse God's mercy for ourselves. There is no hint of exceptions and God means what he says.

Making-Ripples has some comments and a roundup on the stock market and the state of Chinese banking.

Our economy and the economy of China are increasingly entwined, and the bright and shining Chinese economy is built on an appallingly unstable banking system.