This reminds me of that Emo Phillips joke:
Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, “Don’t do it!” He said, “Nobody loves me.” I said, “God loves you. Do you believe in God?” He said, “Yes.” I said, “Are you a Christian or a Jew?” He said, “A Christian.” I [...]
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What a difference a year makes: Just a little more than 1 year ago Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) paid $100bn for ABN Amro (80% cash).
For this amount, RBS could today buy:
Citibank $22.5bn,
Morgan Stanley $10.5bn,
Goldman Sachs $21.0bn,
Merrill Lynch $12.3bn,
Deutsche Bank $13.0bn and
Barclays $12.7bn,
And still have $8bn change
A Mulligan on ABN AMRO Anyone? | Kevin Hoffberg’s [...]
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“I am the greatest!” the great boxer Muhammad Ali famously declared—later adding, “I said that even before I knew I was.”
Teen Self-Esteem May Be Too High | LiveScience.
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“I’m with Stupid”
The dumb, dumb world of Malcolm Gladwell • The Register.
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The Force is with us but let’s try to keep our heads. These things are certifiable: “The Empire Strikes Back,” George Lucas’s sequel to his “Star Wars,” the biggest grossing motion picture of all time, has opened. On the basis of the early receipts, “The Empire Strikes Back” could make more money than any other [...]
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golden-gate-bridge-xl.jpg (JPEG Image, 1280×1024 pixels) - Scaled (52%)
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In 1976 Irving Kristol publicly worried that “populist paranoia” was “subverting the very institutions and authorities that the democratic republic laboriously creates for the purpose of orderly self-government.” But by the mid-’80s, he was telling readers of this newspaper that the “common sense” of ordinary Americans on matters like crime and education had been betrayed [...]
YouTube - Gore Vidal versus David Dimbleby.
In a climax, described by some as interesting, the McLaren car pointer crossed the chequered line in fifth place thereby finishing first and completing yet another day of abject humiliation for the world’s foreigners.
Roy Hobbs, who gets paid to talk about car pointing, said: “Hamilton has been destined for this moment ever since he learned [...]
