What Cliff?

Have reason to believe that if one were to understand TV in a fashion other than flashing colors and the occasional whiny/interesting dog sound or scary huge cat growl, there's this certain Coyote vs. Road Runner dualism one might find amusing. In which our hero, one Wile E. Coyote, ocassionally finds himself temporarily standing on some air. After which his gastronomical needs are apparently (gasp!) delayed.

Here might be one such topographical feature (hat tip Sudden Debt), courtesy the St. Louis Fed:



Which might provide additional fodder for the good ninja rant I previously mentioned. So much for rational actors, and predicting every coming chunka data looking nice and smooth, like in every other previous period. Hoocoodanode (RIP, Tanta)?!