Investors are understandably bone-tired after seeing one accounting calamity after another splattered across the front pages.

FORBES: Watching The Books

When we had calls to make, teachers and nurses showed up after work, already bone-tired, but staying anyway, late into the night.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

And when these Americans come home at night, bone-tired, and turn on the news, all they see is the same partisan three-ring circus here in Washington.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Addresses the Nation on Dangers of Default

Meanwhile, Taylorized workers kept complaining about being bone-tired.

NEWYORKER: Not So Fast

The evening is memorable mostly for the searing arias delivered by Big Mama (the electrifying Tonya Pinkins), a bone-tired matriarch who works nights at a hospital only to discover that the little extra money she makes disqualifies her from being relocated to a better housing project.

NEWYORKER: Minority Reports