This is a video review of Saints Row 2, wherein I weigh the relative strengths and weaknesses of the different gameplay mechanics and narrative conventions in an effort to, eventually, assign a numerical score denoting the game's value.

Riggle has signed a talent holding deal, which includes a development component, with CBS and sister CBS Paramount Network TV to create and star in a half-hour laffer. Riggle said he's kicking around several ideas at the moment, one of which may touch upon his background as a major in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. "I've got a notebook full of ideas that I've been keeping for many years," Riggle said.

Deal comes as two of Riggle's "Daily Show" colleagues, married duo Jason Jones and Samantha Bee, are also busy developing a half-hour at CBS and its sibling studio (Daily Variety, Oct. 14).

"D.L. is a very thoughtful, well-informed guy with unpredictable views, and I've always admired his comedy," said CNN/U.S. prexy Jon Klein. "The basic premise of the show is, what if a guy like him was let loose in the CNN building for a weekend after the lights went off?" Klein said CNN could not release the name of the show yet. Veteran producer Mitch Semel will be the exec producer and showrunner.

While Comedy Central has two dominant players in the news-laffer genre - "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" - Klein said the new CNN skein will be different. "Daily" and "Colbert" are "fake newscasts, whereas this is really D.L.'s observations and comments on the week's events and his riffs on the news," Klein said.

"I'm a big fan of both of those shows," Hughley said, "but I've got a different skill set. I'm not going to parody a news show or a news anchor. My show will reflect my views on things just as their shows reflect their views."

For instance, as Hughley continued, "There have been six movies with a black man as the president, and in all those movies, the world was coming to an end. If this election isn’t art imitating life, I don’t know what is."

The question for CNN is whether younger auds will find the show.

Ireland was the first to break ranks by guaranteeing savers' money. Greece, Sweden, Austria and Denmark have all followed suit. And of course the pledge by Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel to guarantee private deposit accounts has sown confusion and chaos in the markets. But just the day before Chancellor Merkel was standing in Paris with other EU leaders declaring that Europe needed to act together.

The problem with trying to coordinate a common approach is that the EU just does not have the right to legislate or act in many areas - they fall outside the EU's competence, to use a bit of euro-jargon. For example, regulation of the banking sector is handled at a national level and different countries have different problems to deal with. In Germany they do not face the kind of property crash being seen in Spain, Ireland and the UK.

But Pervenche Beres, the chairwoman of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee at the European Parliament, is dismayed to see countries putting their own national interest above a coordinated European defence of the banking system: "I think this is exactly what we shouldn't be doing. It might be helpful for a moment at the national state level but if you add it all, it will just destroy the European market. And if we destroy the little thing we have, I think it will be a disaster."

But in the face of this kind of financial crisis the EU lacks the mechanisms for the kind of swift response that national governments can provide. The architecture of the EU is too cumbersome. Typically the Commission may propose a measure. Ministers and - increasingly - the parliament consider it, perhaps over a number of weeks. Then there is a vote, and then agreement at heads of government level. It can take years to pass a single piece of legislation - hardly a recipe for the kind of decisive action that is needed in a situation that seems to change by the hour.

Besides which the managing of economic policy is one area that nation states jealously guard. This would move the EU on to very tricky ground. That is not to say a common approach will not emerge. For example, as more EU countries announce guarantees for savers, pressure builds on those countries that are holding back.

A Muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia has called on women to wear a full veil, or niqab, that reveals only one eye.

Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan said showing both eyes encouraged women to use eye make-up to look seductive. The question of how much of her face a woman should cover is a controversial topic in many Muslim societies.

I'm not going to argue, seeing both eyes is pretty hot.

But doesn't he get it. Less is more. Seeing just one eye will work up men into such a frenzied state, that no amount of sexual deviance will satisfy them. Or maybe that's his plan.

"I came across the ad that was for a prevailing wage job for $28.50 an hour," said Mike, who saw a Craigslist ad last week looking for workers for a road maintenance project in Monroe. He said he inquired and was e-mailed back with instructions to meet near the Bank of America in Monroe at 11 a.m. Tuesday. He also was told to wear certain work clothing.

"Yellow vest, safety goggles, a respirator mask... and, if possible, a blue shirt," he said.

Mike showed up along with about a dozen other men dressed like him, but there was no contractor and no road work to be done. He thought they had been stood up until he heard about the bank robbery and the suspect who wore the same attire.