Year In America September 18, 2008

The Top Five is all T.I. and M.I.A., in a glorious feat of initials. Well, not quite: Pink is 1 and Rihanna is 3. But T.I. is 2, M.I.A. is 4, and there they are together holding hands and smashing feats at number 5. And five new tunes tick for the full circuit, Jazmine finally pushing through to the Top 40 from her base in the urban leagues.

( T.I. & Jay-Z )

( Taylor Swift )

( Fall Out Boy )

( Kevin Rudolf )

( Jazmine Sullivan )

New World

Vast Bailout by U.S. Proposed in Bid to Stem Financial Crisis

I don't have anything in particular to say about this, other than that my mouth is hanging open.