To hell in a leaky handbasket

Today's further evidence that Great Depression II is increasing its chokehold on us:

Gourmet magazines are now offering recipes for leftovers. (New York Times)

An Amazon.com supplier abandons its book warehouse, and thousands loot it -- legally. (Daily Mail)

Shoppers at Beijing's colorful Sanyuanli Market have cut back drastically. (BBC News)

Coupon clippers leap onto the Web to stretch their grocery budgets. (Wall Street Journal)

The meltdown has revived racial tensions on Guadeloupe and Martinique. (San Francisco Chronicle)

"The worst economy in a generation" has slowed the plans of T. Boone Pickens's wife to create a wild horse sanctuary. (Associated Press)