The Great God Market demands human sacrifice to placate Euro crisis; Greeks suggest Brad Pitt.

"It's the least he can do after the hash his movie made of Homer," said one Greek official.  Gay rights activists, still bitter about the film's conversion of Achilles' lover Patroclus into his cousin, have voiced support for the idea.

However it is unclear whether the Great God Market will be appeased, as Spain's borrowing costs this a.m. rose to levels viewed as unsustainable, even after Greece voted yesterday to stay in the Euro.  Francoise Hollande, whose party solidified gains in this weekend's elections, wants to clamp down on regulators, speculators and credit default swaps, but the NYTimes Floyd Norris is skeptical http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/get-the-speculators-2/?hp

In the meantime, Pitt's agent suggested the global superstar "will not be swayed by any offense given to a cartoon character."