From PalmBeachPost.com: Family pets and animal shelters continue to feel the strain of the foreclosure crisis.

Has someone given you a Sharper Image gift card? That's a bummer.

As Congress debates some amendments to the bankruptcy code, there's news that bankruptcy filings spiked in February....at the highest rate since the law changed in 2005.

There has been some news about Countrywide (see the post from earlier today). They haven't said anything in response to the Atlanta, Georgia US Trustee's suit against them but they don't have a problem spending a reported $ 1.3 million on lobbyists last year.