I found a scary video through Bill Cara’s blog, financial guru for “the little people” with a social conscience. I particularly wanted Mark to see it, but it looks as if Mr. Cramer may have pissed off the wrong people. The video was pulled by the thestreet.com, under pretext of copyright infringment. Here is a [...]

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I have this Al Sweringen (Character form HBO’s Deadwood) quote going through my mind. Let it seep down your throat and warm you, burn a little. AHHHHHH!
“Pain or damage don’t end the world, or despair or fuckin’ beatin’s. The world ends when you’re dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like [...]

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TAP: Vol 11, Iss. 13. The Datsun and the Shoe Tree. Thomas L. Freetrademan.
While I was looking for a quote from ’The World is Flat’ for my previous post, I ran into this bit of satire. When I read it, I giggled. I also felt a little uncomfortable on Mr. Friedman’s behalf. My empathetic gesture for the week…
Here it is:
I was changing planes at the new airport [...]

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This semester, I am giving the 2nd year students a weekly blog assignment. Here is the post on that.  I am not entirely optimistic that this will be successful by any reasonable standard, but who said anything about being reasonable?
I just finished reading “The World is Flat” by Thomas Friedman. In it, he extols the [...]

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