Showing posts with label Folly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Folly. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

What Is It Like to Be a Banker?

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Conscious experience is a widespread phenomenon. — Thomas Nagel, inveterate optimist Whilst conducting primary research into the ontolog...
Friday, October 3, 2014

Farewell, Ghafla Distraction

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“Aha! Now we see the violence inherent in the system!” — Monty Python and the Holy Grail Yes, it’s true: I’ve left Twitter. No specia...
Monday, February 10, 2014

Gedankenexperiment

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Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tar...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

10 Reasons I’m Not Posting Anymore

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1) I’m bored . — Nothing remotely interesting is happening in the world of finance to prompt my poison pen. Tapering? SEC and DOJ prosec...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Gone Fishin’

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No, not really. I just thought I’d let faithful followers of this blog know that I’m not dead, and don’t expect to be anytime soon. But I...
Saturday, February 2, 2013

What’s Next?

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A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. This every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows. To ...
Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Wherein Your Droll, Semi-Victorian Bloggist Jumps the Shark

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Let it never be said, O Dearly Beloved, that your Curmudgeonly Interlocutor is loathe to trot out his sesquipedalian stylings for the benefi...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Goodwill Hunting

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I try to maintain my equanimity, O Dearly Beloved. I really do. I make every effort to exercise regularly, eat healthy food, and maintain...
Monday, November 5, 2012

Get Up Offa That Thing

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To VOTE tomorrow . Why? It is rational . Not only is it rational, under certain circumstances it can be morally virtuous . And, notw...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

The Laughing Policeman

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A society that admires its shock troops had better be bloody careful about where it’s going. — John le Carré, A Perfect Spy This picture...
Saturday, June 30, 2012

Turn the Page

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Truckin’, like the Do-Dah man. Once told me you’ve got to play your hand Sometimes your cards ain’t worth a damn If you don’t lay ‘em dow...
Sunday, May 27, 2012

Out of Office Autoreply: Where Are You, Dammit?!

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I am out of the office until further notice and will have limited access to email and voice mail during my absence. For assistance with cre...
Saturday, May 19, 2012

Behind the Wall

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“All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but stil...
Monday, March 26, 2012

Altar of a Minor God

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I break out into this declaration not because of a lurking tendency to megalomania, but, on the contrary, as a man who has no very notable i...
Saturday, February 25, 2012

Cogito, Ergo Whom?

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Carlyle Group said Wednesday, Jan. 31, it reached a definitive agreement to acquire Philosophy Inc., a fast-growing brand of lotions and per...
Friday, November 4, 2011

Tort Reform

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Overheard this morning at breakfast: Lawyer #1: “Being a litigator is like cleaning the Augean Stables : it’s not particularly pleasant wo...
Saturday, September 24, 2011

A Victim of Soycumstance

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[The Stooges are about to attend a fancy ball] Moe: “Now then, gentlemen, remember your etiquette.” [Gives both Larry and Curly a slap.] ...
Sunday, August 21, 2011

The Devil's Book of Aphorisms: Part 1

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The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts....
Sunday, August 14, 2011

Signed in Blood

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A friend emailed to tell me he was out last night and heard someone yell “TED!” outside a bar, restaurant, and adult bookstore. 1 He spun ...
Saturday, August 13, 2011

Tie Me to the Mast, Lads

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Browsing the public twitter pages of old friends and acquaintances this morning has reminded me of whom I miss and why. It has also remin...