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Bill Maher interviewed ‘Dr. Doom’ Nouriel Roubini the other night and after some joking about how Roubini, as an Iranian Jew, born in Turkey and raised in Italy he “wanted to drive himself into the ocean” Maher (sort of trepidatiously asked) “what’s next?” Said Roubini: “It’s going to be pretty bad.” He added that the banks need to be broken up not because “they are too big to fail” but because “they are too big to be saved.” Happy Sunday morning!

When Gawker brought in the coming end of the decade by running a “douche of the decade” poll, the winner, Girls Gone Wild honcho Joe Francis, was not pleased. He didn’t especially object to the “douche” label, but to another, more loaded word they used to describe him: rapist. Francis’ back-and-forth with Gawker’s legal department is revealing in many ways, and raises the question of what, if anything, the gossip site can’t get away with: