Looking for that silver lining? (Pretoria News)

Ouch and ouch again. These are depressing times. Credit crunch, the rand going to hell (but coming back, hopefully), our pension funds disappearing into a black hole, houses and cars being repossessed and economists around the world totally in the dark as to what will happen next.

Nicholas Foulkes: The names have changed, but it feels like Britain in the Seventies all over again (Independent)

It was the news that we were at war, well sort of, with Iceland that did it for me: we seemed, at last, to have come back to the Seventies. Only Nostradamus, and perhaps I, could have prophesied that Britain and this remote northerly island of a few hundred thousand inhabitants would resume the hostile relations that had given us one of the most esoteric conflicts of modern times: the Cod War.

TV Q&A with David Inman (Boston Herald)

Q: I'm trying to remember the name of a movie that came out in the 1980s. It takes place in the South. Confused, a young black man murders a white man. The movie ends...

Looking for that silver lining? (Independent Online)

Michael Tarr takes a double take for those who feel like the light at the end of the tunnel is actually an approaching train.

Fred Nance has crossed boundaries both real and symbolic (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)

Chris Stephens/The Plain DealerFred Nance watches over Cleveland from his perch in a corner office at Squire Sanders & Dempsey. Nance, who grew up on Cleveland's East Side and dreamed one day of becoming a lawyer, is one of the...