Mornin', y'all! Welcome to ex-Freedom Friday! As Mike Riggs, your favorite freedom-lover, reported last week, he is no longer doing City Desk's Morning Roundup on Fridays. And that means only one thing: Freedom is dead.

Three half-steps forward, one giant leap back:
Confessions of a Shopaholic asks you to sympathize with an adorable little journalist/compulsive liar (Isla Fisher) because she just can't stop shopping! Isn't it cute how she jeopardizes a job interview in order to buy an expensive scarf, spreading the cost over a dozen credit cards?
The International asks you [...]