It's the Great Pumpkin Jerry Yang!

I’m still not sure why we added the exclamation point.”

–Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang

Now how does Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang expect to create that “stronger culture of winning” that Yahoo so desperately needs with sad-sack pronouncements like those he made during a company conference in Half Moon Bay, Calif., yesterday? Being chief executive of Yahoo is “a lonely job,” said Yang. “It is a lonely job in the sense that you have to make some of the tough calls.”

And perhaps even slaughter a sacred cow or two. But that’s how you make the big money. Surely Yang, with a net worth of $1.9 billion, knows that.