at 02/04/10 12:24PM
While the media consistantly points an accusing finger of blame over the financial crisis at hedge funds, it is interesting to read a report that runs perpendicular to the popular mantra:
How Hedge Funds Saved The Galaxy
at 01/24/10 3:46PM
The Big Lebowski, as written by Shakespeare
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WALTER
In sooth, then, faithful friend, this was a rug of value? Thou wouldst call it not a rug among ordinary rugs, but a rug of purpose? A star in a firmament, in step with the fashion alike to the Whitsun morris-dance? A worthy rug, a rug of consequence, sir?
THE KNAVE
It was of consequence, I should think; verily, it tied the room together, gather’d its qualities as the sweet lovers’ spring grass doth the morning dew or the rough scythe the first of autumn harvests. It sat between the four sides of the room, making substance of a square, respecting each wall in equal harmony, in geometer’s cap; a great reckoning in a little room. Verily, it transform’d the room from the space between four walls presented, to the harbour of a man’s monarchy.
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at 01/18/10 11:39AM
Marc A Thiessen writes a great article on CIA Interrogations
here.