In case you missed it, Saturday Night Live is airing special Thursday night episodes until Election Day so that Tina Fey can get as much mileage out of Sarah Palin as humanly possible. Last night’s highlight was a sketch that reunited Will Ferrell as George Bush with Tina Fey (of course, as Sarah Palin). Boy, it’s a good thing the Oval Office is a “bummer-free” zone, because MSNBC says

Before [today's] open, the Dow Jones industrial average futures fell the maximum allowed limit… [and] triggered “circuit breakers” that automatically [froze] selling until the market’s 9:30 a.m. open. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index futures index was also down the maximum allowed 60 points to 855.20, and the Nasdaq 100 index futures was down the maximum allowed 85.00 at 1,175.75.

For those of you who invest in Pick Three and Aces High, congratulations. You just schooled Wall Street and the global economy in one swift scratch-off. For the rest of us, the only way this shit could be any more depressing is if it were somehow superimposed onto Bambi’s mother.