I salute the red-faced blowhards on TV who told me there was no housing bubble. I salute their resolve when they told me that housing was just “taking a breather” before going to the moon. But mostly I salute the utter devotion to bullpucky they displayed when they then looked me square in the eye after all of that and said, “This is what we expected to happen. We were due for a correction.”

Mister Deluded Screaming Sycophant, I salute you and the fantasy world that you share with the rest of us.