The! Biggest! News! of! the! Day! - Not E-Trade Financial, Genentech, Coca-Cola, Sears, or Super Fund

Here are some of the contenders for today's biggest...news...of...the...day...

• A look in Genentech (DNA) after an unfavorable FDA panel recommendation on Avastin...
• Some concerns on E-Trade Financial Corporation after more details were released on the cash infusion from Citadel...
• Sales figures from Wal-Mart Stores (WMT)...
• An overall look into the same-stores sales reports from retailers...
• The expected announcement of a subprime freeze plan...
• A new President and COO for Coca-Cola Co (KO)...
• Skepticism [subscription required] on drug stocks as the title says "big pharma faces grim prognosis"...
• A smaller "super fund" [subscription required] from Citigroup (C), Bank of America (BAC) and J.P. Morgan Chase (JPM)...
• A look into the woes at Toll Brothers (TOL)...
• Eddie Lampert's "award" as this year's Worst CEO of the Year from Herb Greenberg...Mr. Lampert is the Chairman of Sears Holdings Corporation (SHLD)...

While those are all stories worth watching, I think it is obviously clear that the biggest news is this pair of articles about man's (supposed) best friend -

• Why Fido is a happy snapper - "Dogs can sort photographs into categories, in the same way that humans and other primates do"
• Dog blamed in fish frying grease blaze - "Firefighters said a grease fire that left $50,000 in damage to a Topeka home erupted after a dog shut a woman out of the house while fish was frying on the stove"

I know that many of you mock the whole animal uprising scenario but look at the articles above and then consider the two quotes below...

• "the dog somehow shut the door"
• "proof that dogs have reasoning abilities"

This was no accident!