Carnival Monday

FIRE Finance blog hosts a very cool Carnival of Personal Finance, with eye-catching (and relevant) illustrations, and helpful context for each of the 50+ entries. It's even categorized for readers' convenience.

For a while now, my daughter and I have had a standing (well, sitting, really) date for Friday nights: House (the doc ) on USA Network. It's always a hoot to watch the title character arrogantly bully his way toward a solution (kind of a medical Sherlock Holmes). I had never considered the show as a place for financial advice, though, until Flexo pointed out some interesting lessons to be inferred.