Beavis and Butthead do the Economy
Here are financial derivatives, boiled down to their essence.You may know them as illiquid, impaired, or troubled assets. Of course it isn't perfectly accurate, because if you get stuck with nothing...
View ArticleI can voetz now?
"So corrupted indeed and debased was that age by sycophancy that notonly the foremost citizens who were forced to save their grandeur byservility, but every exconsul, most of the ex-praetors and a host...
View ArticleVegas Holiday Classic: The Return to Degeneracy and The Rekindling of Long...
Now that Vegas has been slept off and normal life returns with all of its "normality" (such as it is), snippets of the latest adventure beg to be mentioned. Those folks searching for a properly...
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2009: Here we go...
The warm and fuzzy. 2008 Summary in Pictures.We started here:Hit the midway point around here:And ended here:I've been barfed on, pissed on, and shat on more times than I can count*. On the other side...
View ArticleHuman Head Media Presents: John Wayne Gacy and Naked British Guy--A Postgame...
I'd call it not safe for work, but I don't know where you work. Who am I to make that call?Thanks BG for pointing xtranormal. Good times.(1/7/09--Swapped for a Youtube embed and added tags. Sorry for...
View ArticleHuman Head Media Presents: John Wayne Gacy and Naked British Guy, Episode II:...
The ridiculousness continues.Naked British Guy joins John Wayne Gacy in the basement for games. See the burgeoning friendship that bears witness to our truly apocalyptic times in this taut and gritty...
View Article"...I take my daily orders from Dr. Kissinger..."
(fervent O followers may want to smoke some Hopium before reading...)National Security Advisor James L. Jones, speaking at the 45th Munich Conference on Security Policy.From the transcript on the...
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The Ides of Spring
Perhaps it's the increasing appearance of the sun as spring pushes its way to the forefront. The fact that I'm finally finished with this year's self-incrimination ritual (the climax of which is always...
View ArticleConsider the Effects
I found a stream this morning and watched the announcement of Timmeh Geithner's "new" plan (details of which were "leaked" all through the weekend) this morning, and then spent my free chances...
View ArticleInter-Generational Interim
(Note: Before beginning, it should be noted that while the questions referenced below were asked most recently by EasyCure, but are not at all unusual. They're same ones I'm hearing with increasing...
View ArticleThe Economic, another brief illustration.
The Influence Game: Firms Reap Seeds of LobbyingAnyone with any research on the subject of influence-peddling under their belt will see that the article treads in shallow, nay, surface-level waters....
View ArticleApplied Manipulation
Glenn Greenwald lays out current circumstances quite plainly in his latest, Obama and habeas corpus--then and now:"The Obama DOJ is now squarely to the Right of an extremely conservative,...
View ArticleWhile you're waiting -- 4/16/2009
I'm working on some more posts, but these things take time. Until then....Twitter, Fuck Yeah.Otis nailed it down:The key to appreciating Twitter is to accept that it is just a thing. It’s not a...
View ArticleYou Got Swined
(I've been monopolized over the last couple of days with errands and trying to give the Mrs. a break from the frenetic wunderkind. At least one of the pieces I thought would be ready by now just isn't,...
View ArticleScarred Earth
I must have been about 10, which would have put my brother at age 8. There aren't too many concurrent details to include about this time other than to mention that, for various reasons, my ego had...
View ArticleAm I allowed to say Hitler Youth now?
"The faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of...
View ArticleMoney as Debt
A good overview. Well worth the 45 mins, and certainly time better spent than watching I Can Take A Bigger Dump Than You (or whatever the hell they're putting on the rube tube these days).Money as debt
View ArticleMemorial Day Reading: War Is A Racket, by Major General Smedley Butler
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Prioritizing
There just isn't any time for writing right now, so here is a picture summary of the last six weeks. Writing is worthwhile, but for now these things seem more so. Thus, my time has been devoted to them.
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