so much so i bought some Sirius stock right before they merged because when it was barely below a buck i thought “How Much Lower Could It Possibly Go???”

famous last words.

c-net thinks Howard Stern should buy the company.

No matter how you look at it, Sirius XM Satellite Radio is in sad shape. The stock has been stuck around 11 cents for months, and now there’s talk about bankruptcy.

I don’t get it, the satellite company claims 19 million subscribers, and if they were paying the same rate as I do, $12.95 a month, that works out to close to $3 billion a year in income. They also have ads on all the nonmusic channels, which have to be generating income as well. Oh, wouldn’t you think the ads on Howard Stern’s show make a load of dough for Sirius XM?

I’ve heard that EchoStar, a maker of TV set-top boxes, is trying to take over the company. but Sirius XM is holding tight.

So if Howard Stern loves Sirius XM so much, why doesn’t he buy it?

strangely at five cents a share im tempted to get a couple hundred bucks worth and try to double my money if it makes it back to the 13 cents that it was last week.

and best of all is now the Oct Mom now has a website built so she can get money from kind souls who want to donate to her family of 14 kids, two who are handicapable.

one of our best columnists Tim Rutten lets her have it in a piece today, which begins thusly:

These are somber and sobering times, but they may offer us the opportunity to reexamine not only the material extravagance that has characterized so much of our recent life, but also some of its emotional excesses.

Take, for example, the grotesque story of Nadya Suleman, the sad and disturbing serial mom whose apparent addiction to childbirth recently resulted in the delivery of octuplets. That brought the 33-year-old, unemployed single mother’s “family” to 14 — including a set of twins — all conceived through in vitro fertilization, all reportedly at the same Beverly Hills fertility clinic.

As one detail concerning this bizarre sequence piles on another, this strange young woman’s odd story seems to be moving out of the freak show that nowadays passes for far too much of our news and into the realm where serious — rather than merely prurient — thoughts occur.

The treatments Suleman underwent to bear her children aren’t cheap; they typically run from $8,000 to $15,000. Let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that her doctor gave her the lower rate (as a volume discount), which would put her expenses, simply for conception, at $48,000. Suleman told a television interviewer that she covered those costs out of a $165,000 disability settlement she obtained after suffering a back injury working at a state mental hospital.

She also said she is not “on welfare,” which is a bit of a semantic dodge, because it turns out she’s receiving both food stamps and Social Security payments for two of her children who suffer from unspecified disabilities. She also told the interviewer she plans to “support” her family with federally guaranteed student loans while she pursues a master’s in counseling. (One tries to imagine receiving therapy from this woman, but the mind refuses to form the requisite image.)

needless to say, the octobabies, chris brown, the slow bentley car chase, and numerous murders have set our LA Now blog on fire and im sure its helping other local blogs like LAist too. thanks octomom!