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"Mike and Jon, Jon and Mike—I've known them both for years, and, clearly, one of them is very funny. As for the other: truly one of the great hangers-on of our time."—Steve Bodow, head writer, The Daily Show
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"Who can really judge what's funny? If humor is a subjective medium, then can there be something that is really and truly hilarious? Me. This book."—Daniel Handler, author, Adverbs, and personal representative of Lemony Snicket
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"The good news: I thought Our Kampf was consistently hilarious. The bad news: I’m the guy who wrote Monkeybone."—Sam Hamm, screenwriter, Batman, Batman Returns, and Homecoming
April 18, 2010
Danger! Danger! Memory Hole Efficiency Falls to 99.98%!
Friends,
I'm afraid I have some very bad news.
Since the SEC filed suit against Goldman Sachs for fraud on Friday, the media has produced over 5,000 articles about it. Through superhuman effort, they managed not to mention in any of them that John Paulson, the hedge fund manager at whose behest Goldman acted, hired Alan Greenspan soon after the events in the fraud complaint.
At least, until now. To everyone's shock and dismay, an obscure blug by someone named Cody Willard that's part of the Wall Street Journal's online network has pointed this out.
Believe me, we are doing everything in our power to locate and punish those responsible, and will have the system back working at 100% as soon as possible.
–Jonathan Schwarz
I saw that Simon Johnson suggested today that Paulson should be indicted by the SEC, which really would expand the law of fraud quite a lot, since Paulson was just picking the dreck that he wanted Goldman Sachs to include in their deal. That defrauded GS's investors, but they were their investors, not his. All Paulson did was get a better deal for himself. He didn't have any fiduciary relationship with GS's investors.
What's really perverse is why they would listen to him. It's weird how these things that are basically impossible according to economic theory happen so often.
Just saw this great video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNod06Tk3cY&feature=player_embedded
Hat tip to Avedon over at merry olde England. Like she says, "this is what great television can look like."
http://sideshow.me.uk/
Posted by: Jesus B Ochoa at April 20, 2010 09:04 AMYes, imagine, only one person is being charged for everything that went on at G/S. (I can't remember his name, but you've all read it).
Imagine the power of such a person.
Paulson got off easy.
Posted by: catherine at April 22, 2010 01:42 PMHomemade Chicken Soup
Ingredients
1 (3 pound) whole chicken
4 carrots, halved
4 stalks celery, halved
1 large onion, halved
water to cover
salt and pepper to taste
1 teaspoon chicken bouillon granules (optional)
Directions
Put the chicken, carrots, celery and onion in a large soup pot and cover with cold water. Heat and simmer, uncovered, until the chicken meat falls off of the bones (skim off foam every so often).
Take everything out of the pot. Strain the broth. Pick the meat off of the bones and chop the carrots, celery and onion. Season the broth with salt, pepper and chicken bouillon to taste, if desired. Return the chicken, carrots, celery and onion to the pot, stir together,
and serve.
and serve.
and serve.
and serve.
and serve.
and serve.
