Down Goes Lay! (Six feet down, that is)

As I understand it (and correct me on this, counselor) since Mr. Lay had not been sentenced yet, his family gets to keep whatever ill-gotten gains he had acquired. Ah, here's the story in the IHT: Lay's death may help heirs keep assets. Someone had better check his wife's medicine cabinet. Although word around Houston was that he went off his heart medicine and went to the thin air of Aspen expecting not to come back.

But what really may have killed him is seeing the amazing mark-up of $75 a barrel oil, and realizing that he wasn't getting a piece of that action. Makes the Enron scams look like small potatoes. Even that other Texas horse thief, T. Boone Pickens, has picked up a cool $1.5 billion for his meager efforts last year. Enough to break an oilman's heart for sure.

On a lighter note, Italy beats Germany in overtime (or whatever they call it over there).