Jon Stewart: In Dodd We Trust
Hat tip reader Carrick. Enjoy! The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c In Dodd We Trust www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Reform
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How to Stay Awake During Obama Speeches: Play Bullshit Bingo
Via e-mail: 1. Before Barrack Obama’s next televised speech, prepare your “Bullshit Bingo” card by drawing a square. I find that 5″ x 5″ is a good size — and dividing it into columns –five across and five down. That will give you 25 1-inch blocks. 2. Write one of the following words/phrases in each block: Restored our […]
Read more...Amazon is Not So Dumb
I just received this, and some of the people who helped me with the book have received similar messages:
Read more...Violent Backlash Starting?
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Read more...Imaging Imperial Washington
From Marshall Auerback. One thing that amused me about this rendition is that Obama is most visible as a statue, a mere bit of decoration, albeit the one meant to set the tone (he also appears as a less consequential figure behind MIchelle): Reader Keenan pointed to the source, which includes quotes for all of […]
Read more...Brilliant Marketing Meets Dark Humor
Maybe because I was always better at the quant-y courses in B-school than touchy-feelie ones (not that B-school has the most demanding academic standards, mind you), I’ve always been a bit leery of marketing, as opposed to selling. Selling I understand, the hocus-pocus with marketing has often seemed a bit dubious to me. Yes, there […]
Read more...“Where Can I Get Mine?”
This via e-mail from reader Scott: But as someone else on the thread remarked, “He thinks he needs a ‘decoder ring’ for that?”
Read more...How Many Quants Does It Take to Screw in a Lightbulb?
Some comic relief from reader Matthew G: How many quants does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Using ten racks of co-located blade servers, one quant can detect a janitorial inefficiency, step in between janitor and light fixture, and screw in 49,500 bulbs in less than a millisecond, keeping five hundred lightbulbs of profit. […]
Read more...Some Good Early Feedback on ECONNED
Folks, I am told that authors have to do (virtually) all the marketing for their books themselves and have to promote them shamelessly the time without looking like it. Since subtlety is not my strong suit, I hope readers will cut me a bit of slack if I mistakenly go overboard. I also hope describing […]
Read more...Let Them Eat Lobster!
This may seem sorta silly, but I come from a long line of Maine sea cooks and captains (each of whom got an extra share of the catch of the fishing ships they worked on, so one can romanticize it as being entrepreneurial, but if you have ever spent any time on the Maine coast, […]
Read more...Best Antidotes of 2009 (Part 1)
Reader Robert Oak asked for a recap of particularly good Antidotes. Since there are many good year-end retrospectives and forecasts, I figured this was one area less heavily covered that readers might enjoy. This is a completely arbitrary, personal selection. It is deliberately skewed towards the first half of the year, and I favored oddball […]
Read more...Has Obama been a success despite suspicions of crony capitalism?
By Edward Harrison of Credit Writedowns. I hope this is a good subject to discuss in light of the recent Obama Administration machinations regarding Fannie and Freddie, Big Pharma, and Healthcare. Before the Christmas break, I wrote a post to tie together my thoughts on why I have found the Obama economic program so unsatisfying […]
Read more...Plus ca change…
Catiline, who died during his unsuccessful coup against the Roman Republic, was depicted even by his detractors as a man of considerable talent, charisma, and energy, as well as one of unrestrained impulses and vices (he was tried for deflowering a vestal virgin, for instance). Reader Andrew thought Sallust’s description of Catiline’s character was a […]
Read more...Belated “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” (Financial Services Edition)
Hoisted from comments, courtesy Cullpepper. This gets As for concept and cleverness, even if the versification falls a bit short. Enjoy! ‘Twas the Night before Christmas And all through the bourse-houses All the traders were clicking, Glued fast to their mouses, Their bids were all tracked By the market with care In the hopes St. […]
Read more...Goldman Holiday Cartoon
Kipper Williams at the Guardian, hat tip reader Steve L:
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