Well, maybe “woot” is too much. After all, it should have been this way the whole time. And, yeah, some songs will cost more, but now when I buy a song, I’ll actually own it to do with as I please.

Apple Drops Anticopying Measures in iTunes – NYTimes.com

In moves that will help shape the online future of the music business, Apple said Tuesday that it would remove anticopying restrictions on all of the songs in its popular iTunes Store and allow record companies to set a range of prices for them.

…to put it mildly. Is there any way one administration can fix this during a 4 year term? No matter how good that administration is?

Record Deficit Forecast as Obama Weighs Alternatives – NYTimes.com

If the forecasts are remotely accurate, the deficit would obliterate all previous postwar deficit records not only in nominal dollar amounts but also in the way economists consider most accurate: the deficit as a share of the nation’s economic output.

The agency said the deficit would equal 8.3 percent of gross domestic product, obliterating previous postwar record of 6 percent, reached in 1983 under President Ronald Reagan.