September 2008
38 posts
“There’s a huge difference. In a band, when it’s good, what you get...”
– Tom Morello (RATM, Audioslave) on the difference between being in a band and going solo (via Adviser - WSJ.com)
“Fiat justitia ruat caelum. Or as the immortal Calvin Coolidge said (when asked...”
– John Derbyshire, Interesting Times (via The Corner on NRO)
“I have concluded the best way to deal with the election roller coaster is to...”
– Jonah Goldberg, “Bold, Persistent Experimentation” (via The Corner on NRO)
“Had this been Palin, the election would now be over.”
– Victor Davis Hanson on Joe Biden’s Recent Spate of Gaffes (via The Corner on NRO)
“Imagine that the political balance of power in Washington were different. If...”
– Newt Gingrich, The Corner on NRO
“Look at the record, and at Obama’s replies to essential and pressing...”
– Why is Obama so vapid, hesitant, and gutless? - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
“The first temptation of politicians in a crisis is to shoot the messenger, and...”
– Stopping the Panic - WSJ.com
“One has got to go back on this and say, look, this started 15 years ago, with...”
– Rupert Murdoch (via Obama’s economic policies are ‘naive’ — The Live Feed)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Incompetence, Ties &...
L.G.: And this "hating ties" business, and I know you're being funny, but you distrust people who wear ties?
N.N.T.: It correlates rather well with incompetence.
L.G.: You lambaste bankers as boring people in suits and ties who pretend that they're very prudent but are in fact taking reckless risks without even understanding them.
N.N.T.: Exactly. If they wear a tie they look conservative. The guy in Silicon Valley looks wild, but he's less risky than a banker.
“It is the greatest epistemological difficulty I know. In real life we do not...”
– Edge: THE FOURTH QUADRANT: A MAP OF THE LIMITS OF STATISTICS By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
andrearosen:
lamb:
Radiohead’s “Creep,” as...
“Our commitment to daily marking allows us to manage risk. In the third quarter,...”
– David Viniar, CFO of Goldman Sachs (via Deal Journal - WSJ.com : Live-Blogging the Goldman Sachs Earnings Call)
“Statistical and applied probabilistic knowledge is the core of knowledge;...”
– Edge: THE FOURTH QUADRANT: A MAP OF THE LIMITS OF STATISTICS By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I'm immune to your financial catastrophes!
andrearosen:
I knew there was a reason I didn’t have any investments, credit cards or basic financial security outside of a mild checking account. Diversify my portfolio? I will not, sir! To my friends and relatives who have (or had) fancy money jobs, of course I will hire you at my future maple candy shop in Vermont.
(This whole business will probably have some weird, indirect effect on me...
Is Oprah Biased? Host Won't Interview Palin. →
Is there a hominid being with a functioning upper brain left at ABC News?
If I could reblog everything...
…posted by aja west in the last few hours - without feeling like a totally unproductive, completely uncreative ripoff artist, horridly foul git and generally all around bad guy - I would. But better you just find and follow - a first-hand, second-hand,…,nth-hand fount of brilliance.
“And she still looks loaded for bear, trust me.”
– Jay Nordlinger on Phyllis Schlafly, Who Has Attended Every Republican Convention Since 1952 (via The Corner on NRO)
Moments in Journalistic & Analytical Brilliance
“For a start it would be right to impose an embargo on weapons to this regime, until different authorities turn Georgia a normal state…” - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
(MUCH) Later in the same article:
Lavrov’s remarks will likely deepen Georgian suspicions that Russia’s aim throughout the crisis has been to remove the pro-Western Saakashvili from power....
“This shouldn’t be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov....”
– Barack Obama, Reacting to Rumours that Sarah Palin Faked Pregnancy to Cover for Her Daughter (via Reuters)
