The Edge

Today is Saturday, the 234th day of 2009. There are 131 days left in the year.

Today is Hug Your Boss Day. Convenient, seeing as it's a Saturday. Still, we wouldn't advise going to your boss's home and giving him a big squeeze. You might end up at the top of the To Be Downsized list.

Top 10 reasons Brett Favre came out of retirement

10. Blew his savings on a two-day taco binge.

9. No reason to stay home every day now that "Guiding Light" has been cancelled.

8. Worried Obama's death panels might try to take him out.

7. In this economy, someone offers a job, you grab it.

6. Wants to raise and then dash hopes of another city's fans.

5. Couldn't take another trip to Pottery Barn with the wife.

4. Lured by a lucrative contract and free jar of Icy Hot.

3. "Concussions made me krazy!"

2. Who could resist chance to spend glorious winter in Minnesota?

1. Oh, oh, wait. He just retired again.

"Late Night

with David Letterman"

Late night chuckles

"Hot in New York City today. It was so hot, I was sweating like granny before a death panel."

- David Letterman

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"The Obamas visited the Grand Canyon and I was thinking, yeah, well, New York City's got potholes bigger than that."

- David Letterman

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"I am ecstatic. We are close to defeating President Obama's evil plan to keep people healthy. The president is so desperate that he resorted to publishing an op-ed called 'Why We Need Health Care Reform' in yesterday's New York Times. Textbook sign of surrender. ... Of course the president blamed our problems on the health insurance industry, but where is the balance? Why won't the Times print the insurance companies' editorials, like this one I got today. Dear Mr. Colbert, we regret to inform you that we cannot cover your hip surgery due to your pre-existing wrist injury."

- Stephen Colbert

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"It's been reported that former Vice President Cheney is hard at work on his memoirs. It's called 'The Five People You Meet in Hell.' "

- Conan O'Brien

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