Our Father in heaven, we give thanks to thee that we're not one of the 25 million Britons— half of all of Britains's total population—whose private bank information was made public after the government lost two disks on which that information was held. [NYT]

Former actor and funnyman and one-time talkshow host Charles Grodin just wrote a book calledIf We Only Knew Then....Learning From Our Mistakes. So what are some of his mistakes? Well, we might just ask him that at his appearance at the Armonk Library at 8 pm on November 10th—as per this flier distributed all over up in Westchester!—but in the meantime, we have a few ideas.