Monday: Because You Wish You Were Just Waking Up

Hope everyone enjoyed their Cinco de Mayo, perhaps if Global Warming is really occurring as fast as Matt thinks, then in a few you years you can all enjoy it at the beach like I did.

1- The weekend saw some extremism develop in Europe as a socialist will replace Nicholas Sarkozy in France and anti-austerity parties won in Greece... including the neo-Nazis? Yep, the neo-Nazis will get their first seats in the Greek Parliament since the end of the country's military junta...

2- The markets didn't seem to like this news, and the Euro tanked.

3- France's wealthy also don't seem excited about their new socialist leader, and are looking to flee to England. It could be his open disdain for the rich, and finance...

4- Germany also doesn't seem too pumped by all this socialism and is already warning that EU fiscal policies, which were largely rejected at the polls this weekend, cannot be renegotiated. I guess someone has to be the adult here.

5- Finally, this weekend's anti-incumbent sentiment might be coming back to the US. The most recent Gallup poll shows it will be a close one. I guess the US has to decide if it wants to be France or Germany.