The ever shrill, Paul Krugman, takes the financial service industry to task eviscerating those jokers with a beautiful op-ed in the NY Times. This is awesome and sums up my feelings about the fraud perpetrated on the world that the market is run by smart people. They are only smart in that they make us all dumb for believing them. What a bunch of immoral, greedy bastards. The devil works there.
I don't know if I had already wrote about this experience, but it's
amusing enough to generate two posts about, if I did.Awhile back, I was getting out of Itsuki-chan in the parking lot of
HomeDepot. A middle aged lady was driving by and she was rolling down
her window."Where do you plug that in?""Excuse, me?""Where do you plug that in electric car in?""Oh. Sorry. It's just a normal car." A regular combustible gas
engine, but fun all the same. She had mistaken my car as one of those
fancy electric cars. Perhaps she's never seen a Mini Cooper. They are
rather rare in the area, and they do not look like other cars. In the US, mini's have plain old gas-guzzling engines, not that they are
gas-guzzling, but they run on plain old unleaded. In other countries,
there's a diesel version. Now, they're constructing an electric mini
which is interesting. Perhaps if there's enough interest, you can buy
one of these in the near future.http://www.miniusa.com/minie-usa/
Did you stay up all night just for this? Hunh.
Dad and Penguins
Originally uploaded by skrishnan37.
The penguin movie, not Happy Feet, the other one. Not the surfing one, but the documentary starring Morgan Freeman. Yeah, that one. It’s got the classic Bugs Bunny Merry Melody where he takes chilli willie home except he’s from the circus. Yeah. You remember. Funny, right? Ha ha. Penguins, they’re the rulers of the world. When aliens come, they’ll all fly away. Urr. Sorry, that’s dolphins. Penguins will something, something, something. They’ll claw your eyes out. Penguins.
"Our consideration is limited to the present circumstances…"The Supreme Court, Bush v. Gore
To watch Wall St. come crashing down is very fascinating. It makes you
angry and sick thinking about it all. The more you think about it, the
more "the market" seems to be a big scam. It's greed I tell you. There
is no higher goal within "the market." It's just to make money for
myself, and if you so happen to make money with me, then good for you,
but I can't care if you do or not.While I understand that "the market" gives us jobs and makes the world
churn, I hate it for how indescriminate it is. There is no hard work
there. It's plain luck and who-you-know that'll make you money. You
bring to "the market" your sense of morals and it will reward you with
what it sees fit. It's too bad that those who choose the life of
working "the market" are unscrupulous bastards.http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
“When that rope starts to pull tight, you can feel the devil bite your ass.”
Tuco (Eli Wallach), The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Lots of memories about going to the library when I was younger. Picked up my reading habits there: books on ghosts and haunted houses, lots of serial comic strips — Peanuts, Dennis the Menace, Marmaduke, and choose your adventure stories.
Those choose your adventure stories were the dumbest because I only got four pages before dying. And I would always die by some cave in or falling off a cliff or perhaps being killed by the basilisk. Yes, it was that stupid.
Today’s link is for you to craft your own adventure. Choose your choice or make a new selection. Just go have fun.
Is it his best?
Really can’t choose.
Castle of Cagliostro? Princess Mononoke? Kiki’s Delivery Service? They’re all so enjoyable.
UPDATE: Almost forgot My Neighbor Totoro! How can you forget about Totoro? Catbus!
“So what?”
President Bush about Al Qaeda in Iraq only forming only after the war started.
