Comment of the day is from S,N (yet again – will you guys please stop being so funny and let me read something else?) and relates to the New York Times’ Adam Nagourney:
Smut Clyde said,
October 14, 2008 at 0:56
That is an expression that shouts out “OMG, the gerbil has thawed”.
Crikey – it does.
That description’ll follow Nagourney round the internets forever.
Blimey, this bank crash is making people eloquent. This comment to Deborah Hargreaves’ Guardian post calling for the heads of bank bosses got 60-odd recommends in a couple of hours in the middle of the night.
I think the average Guardian reader’s a just a little bit angry at the banks:
Oct 10 08, 12:40am (about 7 hours ago)
In another article, it has been warned that hedge fund managers and the like will just move to “high-paying Mumbai and Shanghai”. You know what? Read on:
Those of you wealthy people who think you can threaten to take your “expertise” abroad, go. Leave. Get the hell out. We’ll strip you of your passport and you’ll never come back. People are sick of the wealthy threatening to leave at any sign that they might actually have to pay their fair share. Some might consider this anti-social behaviour. If you cannot survive on what everyone else survives on, if you think that the unfettered amassing of wealth is a “good thing” then fuck right off and go.
And good riddance be to you, you social-darwinist deviant
What could I possibly add to that?
UPDATE:
Someone followed up:
Domovoy07, Oct 10 08, 3:52am (about 3 hours ago)
I am really disappointed. CiF is not supposed to be a place for hate speech. I know bankers and bankers. Some of them are now on a very difficult animic moment, deeply lost in a soul-searching process that can be personally devastating.
Good. They bloody well should be.
At Sadly,No, on the coming global Depression:
WereBear said,
October 7, 2008 at 4:21
About 36 hours into the meltdown, I got kinda Zen about it.
I’m clinging to that.
What else can you do?
Only kittens and tea are keeping me sane, but even then the thought’s lurking that soon there may be no more tea and we’ll be eating the kittens in a nice casserole with some tulip bulbs…. OK, deep breath.
Calm.
Times like these are when living in Amsterdam and having easy access to soothing herbs really comes in handy.
From the christ on a cracker thread at Pharyngula
Posted by: Defaithed | September 30, 2008 1:15 AM
@Pete Rooke: “One has to smell the stench surrounding the local library’s two computer stations to know what type of activity people get up to on there.”
—Sir, this is your final warning:
Stop sniffing the library seats.
-The Librarian
Ook!
Has to be the story about the assholery of John McCain by Mary-Kay Gamel that’s doing the internet rounds. [Though I don’t have to remind regular blog readers this, because it is doing the rounds, take it with a big pinch of salt.]:
On the question of McCain’s often abusive personality and inability to control either his sense of entitlement or his temper, a friend sent me the below-cited e-mail text from a professor in California. Unlike the anonymously sourced rubbish circulated by the Republicans to attack Obama, this eyewitness account of a vacation from hell with John McCain has the ring of credibility to it. Here it is.
MY HOLIDAY WITH JOHN McCAIN
It was just before John McCain’s last run at the presidential nomination in 2000 that my husband and I vacationed in Turtle Island in Fiji with John McCain, Cindy, and their children, including Bridget (their adopted Bangladeshi child).
It was not our intention, but it was our misfortune to be in close quarters with John McCain for almost a week, since Turtle Island has a small number of bungalows and their focus on communal meals force all vacationers who are there at the same time to get to know each other intimately.
McCain arrived at our first group meal and started reading quotes from a pile of William Faulkner boo ks with a forest of Post-Its sticking out of them. As an English Literature major myself, my first thought was “if he likes this so much, why hasn’t he memorized any of this yet?” I soon realized that McCain actually thought we had come on vacation to be a volunteer audience for his “readings” which then became a regular part of each meal. Out of politeness, none of the vacationers initially protested at this intrusion into their blissful holiday, but people’s buttons definitely got pushed as the readings continued day after day.
Unfortunately this was not his only contribution to our mealtime entertainment. He waxed on during one meal about how Indo-Chine women had the best figures and that our American corn-fed women just couldn’t meet up to this standard. He also made it a point that all of us should stop Cindy from having dessert as her weight was too high and made a few comments to Amy, the 25 year old wife of the honeymooning couple from Nebraska that she should eat less as she needed to lose weight.
