Most certainly, Bernie Madoff was far more civil in his personal demeanor than, say, those two bank robbers who shot up a North Hollywood neighborhood in a running gun battle with LAPD a number of years ago. But the sheer amount of damage Madoff caused, and the number of people whose lives were ruined as a result, was far and away more extensive.

I need a mimosa.  Or a bucket of driving range balls and a sledgehammer.

Now, the Hong Kong territory's most popular newspaper Apply Daily -- with a long habit of poking China in the eye -- has run an ad picturing
"Mainland Chinese" descending on Hong Kong like locusts. According to the China news blog Shanghaiist, the ad demands an immediate stop to the "unlimited infiltration of Mainland Chinese couples into Hong Kong."
The ad takes aim specifically at the growing practice of Mainland Chinese women flocking to Hong Kong to have their babies because hospitals there are considered cleaner, safer and with more personalized care. Babies born in Hong Kong can receive a Hong Kong identity card, allowing them more freedom to travel abroad. And Hong Kong-born babies do not count under China's restrictive "one child policy," which is being increasingly challenged.