Why Supermarket Tomatoes Suck OneEarth (hat tip reader Carol B)
Man flies US Airways in women’s underwear (Photo) SFGate. Reader Ken wrote, “I’m not a gambling man but I would bet this guy opted for the TSA pat down.”
University of Minnesota engineering researchers discover source for generating ‘green’ electricity e!ScienceNews (hat tip reader Robert M)
High-Tech Bracelets Locate Missing Ohio Seniors, Autistic Children GovTech (hat top reader furzy mouse)
Researchers Graph Social Networks to spot Spammers ThreatPost (hat tip reader furzy mouse)
Harvard scientists to make LSD factory from microbes Guardian (hat tip reader John M)
Climate of Denial Al Gore, Rolling Stone
The Myth of Precision-Guided Coercion CounterPunch (hat tip reader Carol B)
Failed States Index 2011 Foreign Policy (hat tip reader furzy mouse). Note the US is not in the “most stable” category.
“Growing Your Way Out of Debt” Is a Fantasy Charles Hugh Smith (hat tip reader Bruno)
Goldilocks, the Crash, and the Perfect Fiscal Storm Ed Harrison
Geithner: Big Banks Spend ‘Huge Amount to Erode’ Dodd-Frank Law Washington Wire. Marshall Auerback notes: “Dr. Frankenstein seems shocked, positively shocked, that the monster he created continues to act like a monster.”
How insider trading becomes endemic Felix Salmon
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” “Dr. Frankenstein seems shocked, positively shocked, that the monster he created continues to act like a monster.”
Dr. Frankenstein SAYS he’s shocked, positively shocked, that the monster he created continues to act like a monster.
Dr. Frankenstein says he has implemented safeguards, including provisions that should the monster create havoc too big to fix, that will assure that such destruction will not happen again. However, should the destruction happen again, the monster will be allowed to expire.
Dr. Frankenstein noted that monsters are the lifeblood of the economy, what with the need for production of lighting rods, torches, pitch, etcetera and that without monsters, the village would forego the benefits of modern monster theory.
On that WSJ page I can only see a couple teaser paragraphs, but not sure I really care to read all about Timmy’s latest kabuki performance anyway.
I did read some of the comments posted there, though. Ugh! Many read like Fresno Dan’s last paragraph except those posters really seemed to be serious. Mucho distaste for anything that might presume to ruffle any feathers on the wall street maestros. Quite a horror show. The living dead are still quite intent about their right to eat the rest of us.
not dr. frankenstein
more like louie the corrupt vichy cop in casablanca
i’m shocked
here are your winnings sir
Brian;
Next time you watch ‘Cassablanca’ look closely for the quite funny ‘bit of business’ that transpires between Rick and Frenchy in the background just after Louie pockets his ‘winnings.’ The epitome of todays moral morass, played out in a 40’s Hollywood movie.
That’s FrankenStEEn!
This may be the New Abe Normal. Igor will keep an eye on it.
Better bone up on your Deutsch fool. Next you’ll tell us you’re related to EEN-stEEn!
It’s pronounced frankenSTEEN!
That’s vat I said, dumkopf. Und Augegor vill keep a lookout.
“Why Supermarket Tomatoes Suck”: because most customers don’t give a button about flavour or texture, unlike culinary sophisticates like me.
(P.S. I first visited the US in 1966 – your tomatoes were rubbish then too. But I admit that my comparison was with the delicious tomatoes that my father grew in his greenhouse – which were therefore available only in summer and early autumn.)
Dear dearieme;
A lot of us here Down South, crossing all class and social lines, grow our own tomatos ‘in the back yard.’ Look carefully and you’ll find them ripening on windowsills in kitchens everywhere. I don’t know about where the ‘Damyanks’ live, but the growing season here is quite long. A bit of plastic and a few old plastic water pipes and you have a dandy tiny greenhouse too, to extend the growing season.
Don’t just restrict the approbation to Tomatos. A great deal of the ‘produce’ in local supermarkets is picked too soon and bundled off to the poor ‘consumers.’ This is one place where bigger is definitely not better. (Did your Dad also brew his own beer? My Grandad did that and wine, too.)
Cheers.
Grow tomatoes, peppers, beans, basil, etc., bake my own bread, make my own bean sprouts, yogurt, hummus and yes, brew my own beer.
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brew his own beer? My Grandad did that and wine, too.)
Cheers.
”
~~ambrit~
I fill out my own downloaded .pdf files from IRS.GOV. If anyone find out I would be sooo embarrassed.
Got a batch of wheat beer spiced with orange and corinder in the fermenter right now. Will be ready to bottle in one week. Two weeks of bottle carbonation, then it’s ready!
Sampling an amber as I write…
Every person incarcerated in the US has eaten tomato-based products at some point in their lives.
Also…
9 out of 10 doctors is about 90%, and 50% of all doctors graduated in the bottom half of their class.
To one and all;
Ah, for the joys of ‘real beer!’ Coriander? Wasn’t that part of the old Egyptian Pharoaonic formula found in the “Brewers Tomb?”
BTW, if you can get it, old brew mash makes an amazing ‘soil additive’ for the vegetable patch. (Looks like a lot of afficianados of this site are preparing for ‘hard times’ coming.)
Yes I add the spent grain to the compost, unless I add it the bread.
Corinder is used in Belgium and Germen Wit beers. Wit means wheat. Half the grain bill is wheat, half is malted barley.
The American Wit beer is Blue Moon, made by Coors, I think. Served with a slice of orange in the glass.
Caught this the other day on PBS. Excellent segment…
Why you can’t handle the truth: the psychology of belief | Motivated reasoning
By Erin Chapman and Win Rosenfeld
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/culture/video-why-you-cant-handle-the-truth-the-psychology-of-denial/9923/
I am not sure if I can handle this…
Oh H—! I’m not sure we could handle the Truth if it came up and bit us on.. Oh, wait a minute.
We should all be required to become insiders.
That ought to solve the insider trading problem.
The world needs more men flying in women’s underwear.. and the world certainly needs an abundant supply of LSD.
Eureka Springs;
Well, as to cross dressing air passengers; the most ‘infamous’ such practicioner of said art I can think of is the ‘fabulous’ Ed Wood Jr. He can positively be named the Derivitives Fund Specialist of Hollywood.
Can I also suggest that the present economic and political ‘elites’ have cornered the market in psychoactives? Their behaviour is a dead giveaway. If, as has been shown, “LSD absorbs 47 times its own weight in excess reality,” then Modern Finance absorbs 47 times its own value in ‘useful investment.’ Both lead to initial euphoria, but when you ‘crash,’ oh what a bummer.
Failed States Index 2011 : I hope their inversion of Guyana and Suriname isn’t representative of the study…
Also, did nobody told them that Newfoundland is an undisputed Canadian territory, French Guyana an undisputed French one, just like the Reunion, and the Galapagos an undisputed Ecuadorian one? And Madeira belongs to Portugal, not Spain, just like the Azores; and the Bonin and Volcano islands to Japan, and Socotra to Yemen, not Somalia, and the Laquedives to India, not the Maldives, and Jan Mayen to Norway, not Iceland… And Mayotte is a disputed territory administered by France, not an undisputed territory of the Comoros, and the same goes for the Glorieuses islands, and Ascencion, St Helena and Tristan da Cunha belong to the UK, and Fernando de Noronha to Brazil, and the eastern half of the Tierra del Fuego to Chile…
Ok, I’m tired now. What the hell is wrong with their geography?
Sorry, of course I meant : the WESTERN half of the Tierra del Fuego. By the way, why let Cape Hatteras white, as if it were a disputed area?
Rule Number 1 on this board, Don’t confuse us with the facts!
Sure, but why pick nits when they rate Ireland as “most stable” and Greece as “stable”?
Mr Regula;
Because nits often grow up to sit on Boards of Directors, that’s why.
RE: Man Flys in Women’s Underwear
Wow. I’m really offended by that guy. It seems his idea of dressing up like a woman is dressing up like a prostitute. His outfit is a very unflattering view into how he perceives women.
At least the guy with droopy drawers wasn’t insulting.
No fly list?
“Alternative scenarios . . . ” (in the Greek crisis)
by Chris Giles:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f4b8c97c-9cf6-11e0-8678-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1Q4wdPAya
The author lists four “what if” alternatives, with two of them looking rather frightening (disorderly default and leaving the euro), like a Godzilla movie but with the Invisible Hand of the Market replacing Godzilla. Actually, I think the author exaggerates what would happen if Greece defaults. As Iceland has shown, all you really need to do is shut the banks for a few days and reopen with capital restrictions, emergency laws, and perhaps a new currency. No more bank runs. It’s better to do this when no one is looking for it and no one expects it, although that would be difficult in this case.
In fact, the Eurozone could solve a lot of its problems if suddenly one weekend all the banks were shut down and re-opened Monday with new local currencies replacing the sick Euro, and the conversion rates already pegged at realistic levels. That way there would be no capital flight and thus no need for controls.
LEAVING THE EURO
“As the prospect of a disorderly Greek default draws near, officials draw up “plan B” proposals for default and exit from the eurozone. The news leaks, creating an immediate flight of capital from all Greek assets. Realising the game is up, the Greek government calls a week-long bank holiday in which it converts holdings of euros in banks into the new drachma and announces it will no longer meet interest or principal repayments on its debts.
When the banks reopen, the drachma plummets against the euro, forcing many Greek companies with external debts into bankruptcy. The Greek government prints drachmas to fund itself, creating hyper-inflation. Elsewhere in the eurozone, capital flees from all peripheral European countries for fear of the new currency risks that were thought to be abolished with the creation of the euro. Spain, Ireland, Italy and Portugal are all forced out of the euro in the ensuing chaos, triggering a greater confidence crisis than after the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
As Europe enters a depression, its leaders contemplate the ruins of their political and economic experiment of the early 21st century.”
This guy just doesn’t know about MMT. Surely this cannot happen to a Sovereign Nation!
He’s probably shocked by the MMM (modern monetary monster) that he created is acting like an MMM*.
* to be distinguished from the post-soviet MMM Ponzi scheme of the early 1990s.
The Greeks will not be allowed to default. The CDOs written on Greek debt will expose the fraud’s lying in the daisy chain of counter-parties, and bring down the TBTF banks just like AIG threatened to do before. CDOs are a massive fraud based on the concept that you receive premiums for so-called insurance and then never pay off. The truth is that no one, I say again, no one on this earth can say that I am wrong because no one knows what the truth is. This is precisely the point that Amar Bhide made yesterday. The game now is how much Europe can get Bernanke to chip in when he comes out of his self-induced coma and realizes what’s at stake. (We really haven’t studied this just yet will be his first thought upon waking up.) As for my prediction, time will tell.
Friends;
If DARPA is jumping into synthetic biology in a big way, can “The Arlington Strain” be far behind?
I think Synthehol would be a big moneymaker ;) http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Synthehol
The global elite has stolen the English summer http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/harrymount/100054366/the-global-elite-has-stolen-the-english-summer/
“US authorities” just froze pianist Ahmad Jamal’s payment from the St. Moritz Jazz Festival. His name, of course, suggests he’s a Muslim.
Well, how about this:
“A public school teacher was arrested today at John F. Kennedy International airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a compass, a slide-rule, and a calculator. At a morning press conference, Attorney General Eric Holder said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement. He did not identify the man, who has been charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.
‘Al-Gebra is a problem for us’, the Attorney General said. ‘They derive solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in search of absolute values.’ They use secret code names like ‘X’ and ‘Y’ and refer to themselves as ‘unknowns’, but we have determined that they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, ‘There are three sides to every triangle’.”
When asked to comment on the arrest, the President Obama said, ‘If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, he would have given us more fingers and toes.’ White House aides told reporters they could not recall a more intelligent or profound statement by the President – It is believed that another Nobel Prize will follow.”
Hmmm… does this mean you are a radical 2?
Don’t worry. When it comes time to prosecute, they won’t be able to place Holder anywhere.
I think you have just disproved the theory of zero bounders.
Hey, I don’t write the news…I just cut and paste.
It’s not toes, it’s tos.
What, did I step on someone’s tos?
I’m Just Tired, To;
The Pun-ishmant will continue until morale improves!
Canada unveils mesmerizing “polymer” money http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110622/ts_yblog_thelookout/canada-unveils-mesmerizing-polymer-money
The Bank of Canada is rolling out new, plastic-based $100 bills, which will hit the country’s wallets by November. … The Bank will be unveiling $50 and $20 polymer notes next year. “The new bills will last at least two and a half times longer than cotton-based banknote paper, and after being removed from circulation, for the first time in Canada, they will be recycled into other products,” the Bank’s Governor mark Carney said, according to the Digital Journal. “Safer, cheaper, greener: these new banknotes are a 21st Century achievement in which all Canadians can take pride, and in which all Canadians can place their confidence.”
fyi, there is a short video at the link showing the new note in more detail.
Those Canadians — real money, and everything! But will the notes go under my mattress? Can I bury them in a coffee can in the back yard?
It will be the first fiat currency that’s NOT biodegradable.
A classic, and prescient, Dustin Hoffman scene in “The Graduate” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxihhBzCjk (very short)
Imagine, recycling those things into other products.
Into, like, real money? Park benches? Toilet seats?
I think I am sitting on $1 million Canadian dollars here…well, what used to be.
Talk about inflation.
One minute it’s $1 million and the next, it’s a mop.
Master;
Beware! You reveal too much of your occult and arcane knowledge! To sit on a mop is to link yourself to the Witch Cult! (Happy flying!)
Oil rich country starts making money out of plastic… gives a whole new meaning to the concept of petrodollars!
In the case of Canada, you can use them as sandpaper too!
Sir;
Scraping is still good enough for some of us.
Not going to work too well as toilet paper. Probably better for snorting coke though.
Am I the only one that finds pandas as creepy as clowns?
Perspective…
Deep Field: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAVjF_7ensg
Skippy…expand and if you can, go HD.
Re: “Geithner: Big Banks Spend ‘Huge Amount to Erode’ Dodd-Frank Law”
You mean, there is moisture in the water?
Who knew?
Were Obama’s claims of mass rape in Libya like Bush’s claims of WMDs in Iraq?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/amnesty-questions-claim-that-gaddafi-ordered-rape-as-weapon-of-war-2302037.html
File: Novels Possibility Worth Reading
I was just browsing my library to find out if any of my favorite bizzarro novelists have published anything new lately.
Found this:
Title Kraken : an anatomy / China Miéville.
Author Miéville, China.
Publisher New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 2010
Summary:
Being chased by cults, a maniac, and the sorcerers of the Fundamentalist and Sect-Related Crime Unit, cephalopod specialist Billy Harrow inadvertently learns that he holds the key to finding a missing squid–a squid that just happens to be an embryonic god whose powers, properly harnessed, can destroy all that is, was, and ever shall be.
Subjects:
Giant squids — Fiction.
Magic — Fiction.
Cults — Fiction.
Museum curators — England — Fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
It’s gotta be good.
Mr Regula;
Sounds a lot like CSI meets Lovecraft. The Kraken character is a dead ringer for Cthulu. “Ia! Ia! Cthulu fghatn!”