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The Bernank Steps In It
Jeremy Osell (as well as others on FB and email) kept telling me to watch this. Oh my gosh I can’t believe how badly the Daily Show busted Big Ben. You have to see this. It couldn’t have been better. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The Daily Show […]
Read moreI Don’t Think That Word Means What Obama Thinks It Means
I was confused when Obama said, “It’s tempting not to negotiate with hostage takers, unless the hostage gets harmed.” If there were no danger of being harmed, they wouldn’t be hostages. They’d be guests.
Read moreBlatant Falsehood at Financial Times
[UPDATE below.] Robin Harding of the Financial Times starts her article, “Fed Critics Run Risk Their Attacks Will Backfire,” like this: Bigamy, grave robbing and passing false checks are pretty much the only crimes that Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve have not been accused of in the past few weeks. That is a flat-out […]
Read moreQuotable Quotes
Wittiest thing I heard today: A client whose check for my traveling expenses hadn’t shown up wrote something like, “Sorry Bob I mailed that on November 24. It’s not impossible that the Post Office just hasn’t delivered it yet, with the holiday. As my husband says, that 44-cent stamp is 14 cents for postage and […]
Read moreLeslie Nielsen, RIP
I spent a few minutes looking for a good “Best Of” compilation on YouTube, but there were flaws in the first 3 I checked. I settled for the preview for Naked Gun, which is pretty good: Also, I was about to go ballistic on this NPR obit because of the title: “Remembering Leslie Nielsen, A […]
Read moreSparks Goes to the White House
This is pretty good; I kept thinking I would stop it but watched the whole thing. (HT2LRC) Warning a few naughty words.
Read moreSomething About This Seems Familiar…
Lew Rockwell sends this along. Two comments: (1) Sure, governments don’t create jobs, but don’t casinos? and (2) The true zombie speaks in single-word sentences.
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